Ukishima Garden Quotes & Sayings

With all my heart, I seek to reach the Holy Land. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care. — Bell Hooks

Lately, even the Waybacklist borrowers seem to be missing. Have they Been seduced by some other book club on the other side of town? Have they all bought Kindles?
I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! - but come on, I have a lot of free first chapters to get through. My Kindle is a hand-me-down from my dad, one of the original models< ... > There are newer Kindles with bigger screens and subtler industrial design, but this one is like Penumbra's postcards: so uncool it's cool again. — Robin Sloan

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. — Shaquille O'Neal

I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things. — Harry Connick Jr.

I stormed out and got ice cream and cried in my car — Maria Semple

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. — Italo Calvino

Sometimes, when there's too much traffic clogging up the road, you need to take a different route. But following the same path as everyone else can stall your progress in reaching your investment goals too. — Mark Mobius

Laugh up to the end
and
through it. — Hosho McCreesh

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me. — Philippe Claudel

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. — Ninette De Valois

You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you? — Frank McCourt

There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women. — Nora Roberts

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. — Ken Kesey