Top 25 Farrington Quotes
#1. Grassyasses." "Grassyasses?" everyone said in unison. "That means many thanks in Spanish," Mr. Farrington said with a swollen chest.
Joy Avery
#2. I don't care if you're spoiled, for God's sake! I'm spoiled. We're all spoiled, life does that. It's what you do with yourself after you realize you've been spoiled that matters. It's the life you make in the ruins.
Tim Farrington
#3. She forgot: it was as simple as that. She just loved being with the guy. Possibly enough that not even their own wedding could screw it up.
Tim Farrington
#4. Today she wore a navy blue suit that deftly minimized a slight tendency to heft.
Tim Farrington
#5. The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.
Rajneesh
#6. She loved her daughter, the blessing of a good book, a glass of wine after the day's wave of vanity had passed.
Tim Farrington
#7. There didn't seem to be that much to say. If you loved Phoebe now, it was going to hurt you to see her. Like facing cold water, you just jumped in and swam anyway.
Tim Farrington
#8. I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
John F. Kennedy
#9. He smelled like somebody trying to smell like somebody else.
Tim Farrington
#11. Freud put it beautifully: the aim of psychoanalysis is to help the patient let go of the delusional suffering of his neuroses and experience the misery of actual reality.
Tim Farrington
#12. I've got a wonderful, pathetic little life that is precious to me.
Tim Farrington
#13. Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.
Frank Farrington
#14. Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.
John Farrington
#15. It was his wedding day, and then it was any day; it was nothing, and then it was forever.
Tim Farrington
#16. We expect God's presence to be thunderous, spectacular, monumental; but it is our need that is so large. The real presence slips past our demands for spectacle. It slips past our despair.
Tim Farrington
#18. God is the nail that splits our palm to break our grip on the world.
Tim Farrington
#19. But deep prayer, prolonged prayer, is a terrible mirror - kneel there long enough and everything shows. There's no way out of eventually seeing your phoniness and dishonesty.
Tim Farrington
#20. We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.
Tim Farrington
#21. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#22. She had a fleeting sense of his God out there somewhere, like the sea itself, invisible and dangerous, a vastness wrapped in darkness, just a long fall away.
Tim Farrington
#23. I had learned at last to not project my darkness onto those around me;
Tim Farrington
#24. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#25. I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip.
Kristanna Loken
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