Un Amor Viejo Quotes & Sayings

Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I've compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus' Name, Amen. — Lysa TerKeurst

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it. — Auliq Ice

What joy a forest without birds can give? And what happiness a man without jokes can create? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Maybe my homesickness was a form of prescience because when I look back, it's the circumstances of this very car ride that I recognize as irretrievable: the experience of driving nowhere in particular with my sister, both of us seventeen years old, the open windows causing our hair to blow wildly; that feeling of being unencumbered; that confidence that our futures would inform the way we wanted them to and our real lives were just beginning. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect. — Laozi

From the moment you're born, people start folding you into neat pieces and tucking you inside a box of their own design. No, it starts even before then, the moment the sonogram shows a faded blur. Blue for a boy, tractors and race-cars, big and strong and brave. Pink for a little princess, pretty and sweet. They dress you up in their own expectations, before you even have a chance to understand the constrictions of your fate. That box becomes so cosy and warm, you never really notice that you're bent double, fighting for room to breathe. I — Abigail Haas

Pixels don't have the depth, the resonance you're looking for. No matter how hight the resolution, how true the colours, they're still only an impressionist approximation of their subject. Whereas film captures something of its essence, a transferral that goes beyond the chemical process. A real photograph is created by light, pure and simple: a paintbrush of photons that leaves its mark on the canvas of the film. There's a physical link between photographer and subject that calls for fine judgement, for skill. — Simon Beckett

The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me. — Genevieve Valentine

Be, like Proust, a fanatic of time.
— Guillermo Arango

That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune. — Stefan Zweig

Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum. — Barbara Ann Kipfer

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move. — Henry Rollins

Your sense of humor is not for everyone, but I have to say it's growing on me. Like an out-of-control fungus. — Shelly Laurenston

We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange. — Jennifer Egan

I bet you can't play slide piano. — Jimmy Page