Waarvan Quotes & Sayings

Suffering is my teacher. If I pay attention to it instead of trying to numb it out, maybe it can lead me to its root. — Michelle Colston

Leaving this changeling for George, she washed his ripe fruit, and bit and broke the skin. An intense tang, the underside of velvet. Then flesh dissolved in a rush of nectar. Juice drenched her hand and wet the inside of her wrist. She had forgotten, if she'd ever know, that what was sweet could also be so complicated, that fruit could have a nap, like fabric, soft one way, sleek the other. — Allegra Goodman

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character. — Norman Schwarzkopf

It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. — Jodi Picoult

The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives. — John Dewey

Victimhood gives us great moral superiority and entitles us to unquestioning sympathy while exempting us from examining any single one of our actions. A victim is utterly devoid of responsibility or blame. This of course leaves us vulnerable as we will carry on engaging in precisely the behaviour which provoked an unacceptable response. — Belinda Brown

Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic — SARK

That's the way I want you to live your life, Caitlin. The way you want to, not the way that circumstances dictate. — Rowan Coleman

Woman is the lesser man. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here. — Cheryl Strayed

To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity. — Lajos Kossuth

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. — Iyanla Vanzant

I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil. — Charles Mayo