Unswept Uplands Quotes & Sayings

Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go. — Marie Kondo

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. — Thomas Becket

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid. — Mark McGwire

When you do movies on low budgets, you don't want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when you're 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight. — Darius Khondji

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought. — Frederick Lenz

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus

Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure? — J.M. Coetzee