Zoungrana Ren Quotes & Sayings

Lying is manipulation. I prefer to call what I did 'improvisation in times of desperation. — Katie Kacvinsky

-What do you think [aliens] would think of us? Of man?-
-I suppose they would think we're beautiful, strange, and inexplicably horrible to one another.- — Pierce Brown

What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail. — Walter Scott

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends. — Louisa May Alcott

You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.

All life does.

pg 217 — Lesley Livingston

Sunrise
What is the name
of the deep breath I would take
over and over
for all of us? Call it
whatever you want, it is
happiness, it is another one
of the ways to enter
fire. — Mary Oliver

God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, "I can't take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me." — Bill Maher

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less. — Atul Gawande

Everything can change in Petersburg except its weather. And its light. It's the northern light, pale and diffused, one in which both memory and eye operate with unusual sharpness. In this light, and thanks to the directness and length of the streets, a walker's thoughts travel farther than his destination ... — Joseph Brodsky

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end. — Byron Katie

Sometimes you have to lose your way to find yourself. — Linda Bradley

Where are you going?" "To get a Coke!" "Would you - " "No! — Rachel Caine