Valmonde Place Quotes & Sayings

One night, encouraged by the male partners, I puffed away on a cigar - just one of the guys. Except that the smoking nauseated me and I reeked of cigar smoke for days. If that was fitting in, I stuck out. — Sheryl Sandberg

The boundaries are not to be blurred. I was sent off, struck by his harshest thunderbolt, excommunication. In his eyes I am no longer a man of the cloth. But I yet feel the Lord's hand holding me up. — Yann Martel

You will not always be happy, my dear, however wise you are--I wasn't--but always take what comes to you--don't fight life, Camilla, accept it with grace... — Elswyth Thane

I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
I don't know, but it must be better than work. — Shel Silverstein

Industry, the "enigmatic municipality, [that] sprawls across the map of the San Gabriel Valley like an underfed dragon — Victor Valle

A happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand — Ted Kooser

The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims. — Henri Nouwen

so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world — Lucille Clifton

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive. — Brandon Mull

Anandmayi must have insisted. If there is one woman who can entice Parvateshwar into breaking his vow of celibacy, it is her. 'My — Amish Tripathi

After depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is the other. — Victor Hugo

Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world. — Girdhar Joshi