Umnmn Quotes & Sayings

I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe. — Jael McHenry

It isn't yours nor his nor the Pope's hell that we are all going to: it's my mother's and her mother's and father's and their mother's and father's hell, and it isn't you who are going there, but we, the three - no: four of us. And so at least we will all be together where we belong, since even if only he went there we would still have to be there too since the three of us are just illusions that he begot, and your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory And we will all be together in torment and so we will not need to remember love and fornication, and maybe in torment you cannot even remember why you are there. And if we cannot remember all this, it cant be much torment. — William Faulkner

(E)very soul requires secret places for contemplation as well as open spaces for celebration. — M.J. Rose

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. — Swami Vivekananda

So the days pass and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotised, as a child by a silver globe, by life; and whether this is living. It's very quick, bright, exciting. But superficial perhaps. I should like to take the globe in my hands and feel it quietly, round, smooth, heavy, and so hold it, day after day. I will read Proust I think. I will go backwards and forwards. — Virginia Woolf

There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao: the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings. — Laozi

We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky. — Karen Thompson Walker

I consider others as just brothers and sisters. Nothing barrier. — Dalai Lama

If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago. — Seneca.

Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion. — Francis Macdonald Cornford

He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him.
- Lucinda Price, Rapture — Lauren Kate

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God. — John Piper