Wayir Quotes & Sayings

My life has taught me that true spiritual insight can come about only through direct experience, the way a severe burn can be attained only by putting your hand in the fire. Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else's insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of secondhand clothing, worn-out and passed down. I equate true spiritual insight with wisdom, which is different from knowledge. Knowledge can be obtained through many sources: books, stories, songs, legends, myths, and, in modern times, computers and television programs. On the other hand, there's only one real source of wisdom - pain. Any experience that provides a person with wisdom will also usually provide them with a scar. The greater the pain, the greater the realization. Faith is spiritual rigor mortis. — Damien Echols

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous. — Alison Lohman

Those whom the gods choose, 'tis said, they first separate from other mortals - by treachery, by stripping from you your spirit's lifeblood. The gods will take all your loved ones, one by one, to their death. And, as you harden, as you become what they seek, the gods smile and nod. Each company you shun brings you closer to them. 'Tis the shaping of a tool, son, the prod and pull, and the final succour they offer you is to end your loneliness - the very isolation they helped you create. — Steven Erikson

I don't seem to fit to associate with humans. — Meg Cabot

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears. — Romeo Miller

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion. — Amit Ray

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. — Samuel Johnson

Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing." We — Holly Bourne

I just . . . it's sometimes hard not to associate moving forward with forgetting the past," I said. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps. — Amber Tamblyn

She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you. — Gillian Flynn

The true man trusts in a strength which is not his, and which he does not feel, does not even always desire. — George MacDonald