Danilova Reflections Quotes

#1. What we don't realize is that the very option of being allowed to change our minds seems to increase the chances that we will change our minds.

Barry Schwartz

#2. Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.

David Vann

#3. Death, like an overflowing stream,
Sweeps us away: our life's a dream, ...

Isaac Watts

#4. There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

Faith Hill

#5. Fighters have to be optimists.

Greg Jackson

#6. The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

Slavoj Zizek

#7. Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!

Napoleon Hill

#8. So what? We're supposed to whip Titus? Kill him? That would be Law." "Would it? Or would it just be vengeance?" "You're the poet. You figure it out." I kick a stone off the ramparts.

Pierce Brown

#9. The Rougiers earned about a hundred francs a week, and by strict economy managed to be always half starved and half drunk.

George Orwell

#10. The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

George Pierce Baker

#11. Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.

J.C. Lillis

#12. Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them

Fr. Seraphim Rose

#13. Enduring happiness was only possible with equanimity. As long as our happiness depended on circumstances, it would be as fleeting and unreliable as the events themselves.

David Michie

#14. If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

Dalai Lama