Edith Södergran Quotes
I was alone on a sunny shore
by the forest’s pale blue lake,
in the sky floated a single cloud
and on the water a single isle.
The ripe sweetness of summer dripped
in beads from every tree
and straight into my opened heart
a tiny drop ran down.
Edith Södergran
Quotes to Explore
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
Dan Hill
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
Aaron Neville
Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
Victor Cruz
A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
Vanessa Paradis
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
Dallas Willard
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Salman Rushdie
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
Barry Sanders
