Desert Mothers Sayings

#1. Like a blood-red sky that warns the passerby, "There is a fire over there," certain blazing looks often reveal passions that they serve merely to reflect. They are flames in the mirror.

Marcel Proust

#2. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

#3. It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

Greg Peterson

#4. I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

Scarlett Johansson

#5. And, as usual, his girls had rolled right over him.

Kristen Ashley

#6. If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

Olga Korbut

#7. Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

Jessica Sorensen

#8. ...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't...

Emma Cline

#9. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Seneca.

#10. In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.

Joseph Fink

#11. Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

Ayn Rand

#12. We see death constantly on film.

Michael Sheen

#13. Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.

Childhood is a wilderness.

Aspen Matis

#14. In time so long ago begins our play, In war-torn galaxy far, far away.

Ian Doescher

#15. Amma Sarah knew that her spiritual power was infinite if she could truly forget herself and allow Christ to work through her.

Kate Cooper