Weltevreden Quotes & Sayings

All work done with love is healing work. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China! — Lottie Moon

There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction ... For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. — Vladimir Nabokov

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical. — W. Somerset Maugham

Solitude is the mother of anxieties. — Publilius Syrus

The most important reason for your "no" is that you need your downtime so you won't behave like a jerk because you're depleted. And you don't want to battle an appetite spiked by the stress of overcommitment. But that's your secret; others don't need that information. So just smile, say no, thank you, and keep moving. — Holly Mosier

If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat 'on principle' his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action would become charged with importance
it is not improbable that it would result in the formation of a society. — Soren Kierkegaard

Language is made up of names of comparable objects, and that which cannot be compared has no name. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sometimes he'd write my mother's new name under his on a scrap of paper ... then, the one that hurt her teeth to see, Mrs. Brock Connors-as if, by marrying, my father would be himself, and also become her. — Laura Kasischke

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel. — Shane Claiborne

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. — David Ogilvy