Van Dykes Quotes & Sayings

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis — Maurice Merleau Ponty

One thing I do: forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead ... Philippians 3:13 — Beth Moore

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. — Connie Nielsen

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it. — Austin O'Malley

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose. — Seth Godin

I didn't know the demons
that walked across your memory.
They came from the dust
when you were at peace
in your grave. — Susie Clevenger

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit. — Charlie Hunter

It's a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your "I" is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary "I." No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever. — Richard Rohr

The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us! — Javad Alizadeh

Look, if I don't flirt with you, you should take that as a compliment. I don't always respect myself, but I almost never respect men. They're like flowers all showy, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground. But you I respect. I always did. From the first day I saw you. — Barbara Kingsolver

Keep calm and don't forget the whipped cream — Quinn Loftis

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them. — Euripides

Subliminally, the Buddha was saying, we are all tending these fires (of greed, hatred, and delusion), motivated as we are by our insecure place in the world, by the feeling, the dukkha, of not fitting in. The fires of greed, hatred, and delusion are defenses against acknowledging that everything is on fire, instinctive attempts at protecting ourselves from what feels like an impossible situation. The Buddha stressed the burning nature of the world in order to show his listeners what they were afraid of. — Mark Epstein