William Sokolin Quotes & Sayings

The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things. — Thich Thien-An

The task of writing consists primarily in recognizing the distance between oneself and the things around one. It is not sensitivity one needs, but a yardstick. — Haruki Murakami

I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don't eat! Who knew? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. — Margaret Cho

He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural. — Edgar Allan Poe

With so many trapped in the upper floors, it hardly surprised Jo how often they fought, or how fiercely. When you didn't have one room to yourself in the whole world, you laid claim to every inch of whatever you could. — Genevieve Valentine

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl. — Stevie Wonder

Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams ... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine. — Nicholas Sparks

My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved. — Jim Furyk

In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end. — Wolfgang Schauble

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices. — Chuck Palahniuk

Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused. — Brett Lee

The lives of men who have to live in our great cities are often tragically lonely. In many more ways than one, these dwellers in the hive are modern counterparts of Tantalus. They are starving to death in the midst of abundance. The crystal stream flows near their lips but always falls away when they try to drink of it. The vine, rich-weighted with its golden fruit, bends down, comes near, but springs back when they reach out to touch it ... In other times, when painters tried to paint a scene of awful desolation, they chose the desert or a heath of barren rocks, and there would try to picture man in his great loneliness
the prophet in the desert, Elijah being fed by ravens on the rocks. But for a modern painter, the most desolate scene would have to be a street in almost any one of our great cities on a Sunday afternoon. — Thomas Wolfe

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step. — Larry Wall