Untraumatic Quotes & Sayings

An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper. — Ben Ames Williams

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice. — Robin Sharma

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. — Rumi

What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices of inspired prophets. The reason is that all change, in colliding with the inherited institutions of the past, is inevitably hard and laborious; consequently it only takes place in response to the demands of necessity. For change to be brought about it is not enough that it should be seen as desirable; it must be the product of changes within the whole network of diverse casual relationships which then determine the situation of man. — Emile Durkheim

I engaged in the wildest shenanigans just to distract myself from the horror surrounding me; I was acting according to the motto: if insanity laughs at you, laugh back! — Akif Pirincci

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen. — Alan Furst

before dawn I rose thirsty and cold
watching the east I knew
there were other moments everywhere
thirsty without me- — Lance Henson

We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion. — Bryant McGill

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. — William Shakespeare

But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist. — Umberto Eco

I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories. — Malcolm Gladwell

I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though. — Johnny Vegas

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. — Oprah Winfrey