The Shack Chapter Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest. — Karen Marie Moning

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life. — Clyde DeSouza

In Philly when it's good, there is no better place. — Pat Burrell

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions. — Dogen

Anything we fully do is an alone journey. — Natalie Goldberg

Listen, I know you run your mouth so your mind can rest. — Andrea Gibson

This is my favorite time of day. When the sun is setting and the last of its fiery fingers caress the water line before relinquishing their hold to the darkness of the night. And I can watch as the stars pop out, one by one, to pinprick the sky with their silvery light. — J.A. Souders

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness. — Penn Jillette

The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying
history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a
feeling of satisfaction. — Nola Ochs

I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, "that after getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second," money itself being of a prolific nature. — Benjamin Franklin

Weaving olden dances; mingling hands and mingling glances. — W.B.Yeats