Waisak Quotes & Sayings

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. — Paul Valery

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does. — Al Bernstein

The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it 'ominous' when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don't we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we're going to have to defend ourselves against you? — James Baldwin

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it. — Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

This isn't one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after! When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can't just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you're ready. — Colleen Hoover

Heat sells better than light. — Jen Lawrence

You have to have a very well-balanced life to be able to perform very well. — Stephen Ames

I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream. — Elena Ferrante

Let's put it this way: an object created by the human spirit and intellect, which means a significant object, is "significant" in that it points beyond itself, is an expression and exponent of a more universal spirit and intellect, of a whole world of feelings and ideas that have found a more or less perfect image of themselves in that object - by which the degree of its significance is then measured. Moreover, love for such an object is itself equally "significant." It says something about the person who feels it, it defines his relationship to the universe, to the world represented by the created object and, whether consciously or unconsciously, loved along with it. — Thomas Mann

I'm afraid to close my eyes, I'm afraid to open them — Heather Donahue

Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli. — Ken Keyes Jr.

It's warmed up a bit," Shukhov decided. "Eighteen below, no more. Good weather for bricklaying. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Don't try to be perfect. It's going to take all your energy to just not be awful. One miracle at a time. — Elan Gale