Upitaja Quotes & Sayings

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young. — Carine Roitfeld

A relationship could be a place to hide too. — Deb Caletti

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over. — Ray McKinnon

You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world. — Enock Maregesi

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life. — Mo Yan

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death. — Julianna Baggott

It was floating. Waiting.
It had no sense of how long It had been in this state. Its awareness had retreated into a tiny core at the center of Its being, away from the searing torment of separation, Its very essence ripped apart. Never had It known such sensation. So It had retreated, further and deeper, wrapping Itself in a cocoon of Light; waiting only for a call, for an opening, that It might be reunited with Its Beloved. Waiting until ...
Something stirred within. Suddenly, there is a reaching, a pulling. Its awareness opens and It is caught in a field of gravity. It plunges down, irresistibly down toward the blue planet, unable to control or navigate. — J. Valor