Vancouver School District Quotes & Sayings

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me. — Lincoln Steffens

Stop letting everyone else tell you what's wrong and right. Stake a claim! You cower when you could conquer. — Tahereh Mafi

How had she lived until now without knowing what a touch and a kiss could do, how it could consume a person like a wildfire consumed a forest, leaving nothing behind but a charred surface? — Tina Folsom

Becoming serious is not the same thing as approaching the truth — Haruki Murakami

The past is gone and the future is still to happen. Only the present moment is real. I believe we all know this very well. As for me, I have been practising the art of being in the here and now for three decades. I have used many techniques aimed at focusing the attention on the present, while releasing attachment to past and future. There are also many courses and workshops on the topic. And I can provide details, if you are interested. Yet, I warn you, learning to be in the present requires lots of hard work, time and money. Yet there is one circumstance when results are immediate, with no effort and also free of charge. This is when both looking ahead or backwards is so painful and horrible, that the only option is looking straight into the present. Hence, if it is the case for you now, rejoice, this may be your greatest chance, and you are in good company! — Franco Santoro

A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective. — Kristen Stewart

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece. — Bruce Springsteen

I've never done anything for money, and that is why I got money. When you do stuff for money, you never get money. — Roseanne Barr

How are you feeling?"
"Coffee. — Tiffany Reisz

My brother played with spell-books, I played with swords. One gives you paper cuts, the other removes your fingers. — Elise Kova

The ear favours no particular "point of view."
We are enveloped by sound.

It forms a seamless web around us.

We say, "Music shall fill the air." We never say, "Music shall fill a particular segment of the air."We hear sounds from everywhere, without ever having to focus.

Sounds come from "above," from "below," from in "front" of us, from "behind" us, from our "right," from our "left."

We can't shut out sound automatically.

We simply are not equipped with earlids.

Where a visual space is an organised continuum of a uniformed connected kind, the ear world is a world of simultaneous relationships. — Marshall McLuhan

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case. — Pythagoras

On a specific day marked on the earth's calendar, and in a specific place on the earth's map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love. — Billy Graham

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. — Derek Walcott

Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality! — W.O. Makora