Traverso Tree Quotes & Sayings

It's stupid, but I kept thinking I owed it to her
to Anne Frank, I mean
because she was dead and I wasn't, because she had stayed quiet and kept the blind drawn and done everything right and still died ... — John Green

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion. — Nicolas Malebranche

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. — Inga Muscio

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. — George Burns

All the same, you don't do it for money, or you're a monkey. You don't think of the bottom line, or you're a monkey. You don't think of it in terms of hourly wage, yearly wage, even lifetime wage, or you're a monkey. In the end you don't even do it for love, although it would be nice to think so. You do it because to not do it is suicide. — Stephen King

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems. — Bruce Lee

A library is a room where the murders take place. — J.B. Morton

Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target. — John Edgar Wideman

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find. — Beth Orton

Not long after that I was walking along the beach, I dropped to my knees, I began crying because I realized that I'd gotten sober, but I hadn't done it for my kids, or even my own health. I hadn't thought about them when I was using, so why would I have gotten sober for them, either. Drugs robbed me of my spirituality and compassion, only later to find I'd lost Liv and Mia as well - I cried when they forgave me for my past behaviors but I'll be working on it for the rest of my life.

What would I say to my children? We may have picked the key but they are their own song. We don't own them, they only pass through us, as Kahlil Gibran says in The Prophet, they don't owe us anything either. — Steven Tyler

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow