Valeriana Te Quotes & Sayings

The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that. — Douglas Adams

This Narcissus of ours
Can't see his face in the mirror
Because he has become the mirror. — Antonio Machado

Through, like the kind that spring up on the most perfect summer days, tossing the leaves of the trees and flowing past like heavenly water. A divine breeze. It changed everything, shifting the world around me into an even higher octave, a higher vibration. Although I still had little language — Eben Alexander

He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his
own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent smile, the terror in the brightness with which she faced the world, or the reasons why she hid when she couldn't manage to beam ... every moment she
spent in the world was full of panic, so she smiled and smiled and maybe once a week she locked the door and shook and felt like a husk, like an empty peanut-shell, a monkey without a nut. — Salman Rushdie

Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success. — Cat Cora

The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self. Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries. New fields of energy become available to support the human venture. These new energies find expression and support in celebration. For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration. It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself.. — Thomas Berry

they ask for water we give them sea
they ask for bread we give them sea
they ask for life we give them only the sea — M. NourbeSe Philip

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big. — Sandra Bernhard

To yield readily
easily
to the persuasion of a friend is no merit ... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. — Jane Austen

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more. — Ricky Schroder

That growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. — Jim Butcher

It was the kind of look a man would get once and then fight and die to have aimed his way on a regular basis. Fuck — Kristen Ashley