Vreeken Obituary Quotes & Sayings

nestle up with me now and let us
fall in love with the feeling
of our worries spilling into the sheets.
nestle up with me now,
let us give birth to seeds of whispering moans
and let those coil with our bones
as we tumble in love with the blooming echo.
nestle up with me now,
let us grow old and die delicate in each other's arms
for my god what an exquisite honor it would be
to erode from this crumbling earth
all the while being washed in your
lover's grains,

nestle up with me. — Christopher Poindexter

Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse. — Iris Apfel

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. — George Gissing

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others. — Jon Gordon

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well. — Orison Swett Marden

I'm big in Russia, but no one's quite sure why. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose, — Edward Snowden

The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love. — Joyce Brothers

Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink. — Mattie Stepanek

Swag is not something you wear, it is something you are born with. — Batuhan Ibal

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. — Jose Marti

The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others. — Louis Pasteur

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. — Eileen Myles

Our old religious and moral traditions," writes Cupitt in The Great Questions of Life (2005), "have faded away, and nothing can resuscitate them. That is why a tiny handful of us are not liberal, but radical, theologians. We say that the new culture is so different from anything that existed in the past that religion has to be completely reinvented. Unfortunately, the new style of religious thinking that we are trying to introduce is so queer and so new that most people have great difficulty in recognizing it as religion at all. — Stephen Batchelor

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering. — Alan Watts