Tettey Banfro Quotes & Sayings

Often, we get crushes on others not because we truly love and understand them, but to distract ourselves from our suffering. When we learn to love and understand ourselves and have true compassion for ourselves, then we can truly love and understand another person. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Hell's put in a skating rink," Shane said. "This is actually edible, Eve. — Rachel Caine

With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission. — Alicia Suskin Ostriker

He is hotter than a zombie cooked in a dippsy dumpster with kerosene. — Alexander Fontana

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship — Mother Teresa

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation. — Gretchen Rubin

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza

Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left. — Lee Trevino

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real! — Gloria Stuart

Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life. — Q'orianka Kilcher

But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice ... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can. — Charles Darwin

Motivation is about feeling - determined, enthusiastic, frenzied, even angry - and is therefore fickle and unreliable. You can't count on it being there. Consistency, however, is about doing. Consistency isn't something that you need to wind up like a coiled spring every morning. You don't need to plug it in and recharge it every few hours. It is that steady yet relentless journey to an end. It doesn't require profound thought. You quite literally just effing do it. — Michelle Bridges

Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management. — Mark Sisson