Tunings For Lap Quotes & Sayings

But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them. — Fannie Flagg

Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous. — Vironika Tugaleva

Don't go chasing after the grand theme, the idea, I told my students, as if it is separate from the story itself. The idea or ideas behind the story must come to you through the experience of the novel and not as something tacked onto it. — Azar Nafisi

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?' — Charles R. Swindoll

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine ... and then make them plausible. — Chris Bohjalian

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) — Pierre Mac Orlan

I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother. — Debasish Mridha

Being the Stream
Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the
stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream,
so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies.
Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally
into it. — Gary Snyder

It's not really outstanding when you're standing out
Outcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout — Munia Khan

Have you worked towards your dream today?

Alan Shepherd — Pamela Harstad

Go get him, tiger, I silently told him. Shouldn't you be working? he asked. Yes, I said frankly. But the world outside these walls is depressing, and I need the distraction. You may begin impressing me now. — Chloe Neill

The blood of Christ "purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation" (Revelation 5:9 NIV). — Billy Graham