Unmerry Christmas Quotes & Sayings

Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror. — Marcel Proust

The future cannot be divorced from the past. — Erika Johansen

It'd be good to see you happy. It'd be good to see you give what you got to give to a woman who deserves to get it. — Kristen Ashley

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial. — Donald Antrim

I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular. — Chick Corea

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down". — Richard Rohr

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope. — Lynn Flewelling

Nothing I do to describe these experiences can possibly convey the emotions that went with them. If there were a drug that could reproduce the same effect, I would be on that drug right now, and damn the side effects. Imagine a blend of all your favorite things: ice cream, sex, white sandy beaches, Beethoven's symphonies, all those happy times with your Garden-Weasel, the whole nine yards. Picture these experiences combined, boiled down into their most concentrated elements of pure joy, then multiplied by trillions and injected into every one of your cells. That might begin to help you imagine what I felt when the sense of Something Bigger emerged in the hurricane's eye of my life, surrounded by events that were otherwise completely devastating. The peace and joy were so dazzling, so potent, that I thought they would never fade. — Martha N. Beck

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off. — Charley Pride

The more hopeful mode suggests that emphasizing the needs and well-being of one's near-at-hand community first and foremost can be, for social conservatives, not an alternative to fighting for the soul of the larger society, but a most effective means of doing so. — Yuval Levin

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. — Faye Wattleton

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson