Araucaria Excelsa Quotes

#1. For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Anais Nin

#2. If you haven't already told your kids 'don't fellate the president' then you're probably a bad parent.

Scott Adams

#3. I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

Alex Trebek

#5. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Wayne Dyer

#6. Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.

Timothy Keller

#7. Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.

Mark Buchanan

#8. I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Patrick DeWitt

#9. She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

Laura Furman

#10. If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Leonardo Da Vinci