Tysickbaby Quotes & Sayings

Repetition and familiarity work. What is repeated becomes familiar, and this becomes a part of us. Our own culture understands this, but alas, not always the church. Far too many equate ritual with spiritual dryness. True, ritual and liturgy can be dead
even using the terms can raise hackles
but only when the significance and power of those rituals are forgotten. Spiritual death is not a property of ritual itself. To the contrary, ritual has always been and will always be a means of securing for future generations the power and reality of the gospel. (Peter Enns, Exodus, page 262). — Peter Enns

The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out. — Anais Nin

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. — Horace Mann

be careful of thinking about people as "kinds of people"? — Mary-Louise Parker

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. — Truman Capote

Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know. — Frank Loesser

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? — Walt Whitman

According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town. — Victor Lewis-Smith

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. — George Chapman

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me. — Glen Sather

Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple! — Caroline Wells Healey Dall

All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow. — Gautama Buddha

One writes not to be read but to breathe ... one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes
in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer
you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Oh, come on. What's that thing you say? The past is another country. You make out with different people there. — Sarah Rees Brennan