Valoras Blessing Quotes & Sayings

Friendship, as far as I'm concerned, is a delicate and rare thing that's built up over time and is predicated on mutual trust, mutual respect, reciprocal interests and share commitments. It's a relation that ultimately is lived out, at least as if it were chosen not taken for granted or assumed in advance. It's something that has to be renegotiated at every step, not demanded unconditionally. — Chris Kraus

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms. — Nora Roberts

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise. — Carla Hall

Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon. — Peter Singer

Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut. — Dan Brown

Being rejected from something good just means that Allah is pointing you to something better — Boonaa Mohammed

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have. — K.A. Applegate

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim. — Anonymous

I had to work at everything. — Miranda Lambert

And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy of suffering, that profoundly dishonest emotion which derives from the foolish notion that only the oppressed can achieve righteousness or - more importantly - write anything profound. — Theodore Dalrymple