Yaelle Shaphir Quotes & Sayings

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off. — Bruce Lee

Never follow a story with a question, Maisie, not immediately. And remember to acknowledge the storyteller, for in some way even the messenger is affected by the story he brings. — Jacqueline Winspear

Our goal should not be to reshape masculinity but to eliminate it. The goal is liberation from the masculinity trap. — Robert Jensen

This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism. — Jerry Stahl

O smile, going where? O upturned look:
new, warm, receding surge of the heart
;
alas, we are that surge. Does then the
cosmic space
we dissolve in taste of us? Do the
angels
reclaim only what is theirs, their own
outstreamed existence,
or sometimes, by accident, does a bit
of us
get mixed in? Are we blended in their
features
like the slight vagueness that
complicates the looks
of pregnant women? Unnoticed by them
in their
whirling back into themselves? (How
could they notice?) — Rainer Maria Rilke

Peace is not only the goal, it is the game itself. — Debasish Mridha

realized she was as much of an addict as I was, and refinement was her drug of choice. — C.D. Reiss

The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have had an incorrect view of what makes life significant. The problem is that they have had almost no view at all. Medicine's focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet - and this is the painful paradox - we have decided that they should be the ones who largely define how we live in our waning days. — Atul Gawande

Under the idea that we can all make our own fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us. — Elizabeth Scott

No battle is worth fighting except the last one. — Enoch Powell

It's one thing for forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then? — Daniel Handler