Umbrellas And Friends Quotes & Sayings

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. — Terry Goodkind

I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies. — Ray Bradbury

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni

Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

So many of us had to leave. But every single one of us wishes we hadn't had to. Every single one of us wishes our family had acted like our family, that even when we found a new family, we hadn't had to leave the other one behind. Every single one of us would have loved to have been loved unconditionally by our parents. Don't make him leave you, we want to tell Mrs. Kim. He doesn't want to leave you. — David Levithan

I want to have thoughts of abundance. I want to have thoughts of love, of kindness, of beauty. — Wayne Dyer

I wasn't going to go deeper into the darkness for anybody. I was already living in the darkness. My family was my light and I was going to protect that light at all cost. That was where my dedication was, first, last and everything in-between. What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. Not a damn thing. — Bob Dylan

Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude ... — James Joyce

Learn to keep close to [Jesus], to listen to His voice, and follow Him. — Billy Graham

Goals have a way of refocusing your life. They give you purpose and a target to shoot for. They are the compass of our dreams, helping us set a steady course. Goals comprise direction and progress. When we lose sight of our goals, we tend to lose sight of ourselves and who we are trying to become, who God has made us to be. — Mark Batterson

A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth - and joy. Make a 'career' of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you - and what you do 'for a living' makes you happy - you have found the best of all combinations. — Esther Hicks

Scratch your flesh raw between your toes, but you won't find the answer. — Franz Kafka

I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate. — Stewart Rahr

The artist is the closest man comes to being God. — Leonard Peikoff