Willemijn Vermeir Quotes & Sayings

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. — Neil Gaiman

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. — Margaret Atwood

If you were this fish, would you prefer me to be eating you with sadness or with delight? — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go. — Sherry Turkle

One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments. — Romy Schneider

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. — Gustave Flaubert

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. — J.G. Ballard

Us brown-skinned girls get ashy if we don't moisturize. — Tyra Banks

It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you. — Sherwood Anderson

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot

This is like beginning to read a book. When we start, we will often be interrupted by many distractions around us. But if it is a good book, perhaps a mystery novel, by the last chapter we will be so absorbed in the plot that people can walk right by us and we will not notice them. In meditation at first, thoughts carry us away and we think them for a long time. Then, as concentration grows we remember our breath in the middle of a thought. Later we can notice thoughts just as they arise or allow them to pass in the background, so focused on the breath that we are undisturbed by their movement. As — Jack Kornfield