Georgina Beyer Quotes

#1. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in ... the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.

David Foster Wallace

#2. I began to pray for help with what I needed and wanted as well as for the knowledge of God's will for me and the power to carry it out. Immediately, I felt a heightened sense of spiritual companionship.

Julia Cameron

#3. His gaze is fixed on me: calm, unflappable; 2 buckets of river water at midnight. I'd like to cry into his eyes.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Be not in despair; let those tears of sadness grow into flowers.

Debasish Mridha

#6. You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

Jarvis Cocker

#7. I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to.

The Great Pacifist

#8. I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

Jonathan Haidt

#9. Success is not going to just come to you. You must go out and get it.

Jon Jones

#10. Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.

J.K. Rowling

#11. writing is a sustained act of empathy.

Andre Dubois

#12. Last time I really got to know myself it turned out there was a whole gang of bitches in there to deal with. I felt like the receptionist at a rehab center. They all had nice tits though, I gotta say.

Christopher Moore

#13. The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.

Ann Lauterbach

#14. Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

George Mackay Brown