Achingly Slow Quotes

#1. People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow.

Zoe Heller

#2. The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

Parker J. Palmer

#3. Gray hair is a glory of a splendor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. It's that time of year again, April 15, taxes. I know it's depressing, but just remember, you're paying for roads, bridges, hospitals, and an army to keep the nation free. Unfortunately that nation is Afghanistan.

Bill Maher

#5. Even technology adores a mother's love.

Sujit Meher

#6. When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

Amiri Baraka

#7. During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.

Yvon Chouinard

#8. I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

Kerry Bishe

#9. What is it that is whirling the mind? Imagination, creative activity. Stop creation and you know the truth. All power of creation must stop, and then you know the truth at once.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#11. Boys and girls, have confidence in the direction and counsel and advice of your parents and grandparents who love you more than anybody else in the world does.

James E. Faust

#12. To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it

Prentice Mulford

#13. If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law. Vess

Sheri S. Tepper

#14. As the song goes, 'You are lost and gone forever, oh my darling, Valentine.'
[ ... ]
I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew. Someone I liked.
I'm listening. But still, I'm too late.

Jay Asher

#15. Choose equality.

Matthew Arnold

#16. What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Tim O'Brien