Hayashi Fumiko Quotes

#1. It's an alien toilet!" -Cassie

Katherine Applegate

#2. Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue.

Don Elium

#3. I am a worm in comparison with His Excellency. I am a worm.' 'Yes, that's just it, you are a worm indeed.

Julian Barnes

#4. Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

#5. The days will always be brighter because he existed.
The nights will always be darker because he's gone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#6. The large, heavy, coal black doors creaked and groaned as she pushed them open in an expression of tiredness and fatigue from all the years of standing up right to preserve the entrance to the majestic building they guarded.

Jill Thrussell

#7. I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

Charles Bukowski

#8. The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#9. By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening ... True listening is love in action.

M. Scott Peck

#10. The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.

T.F. Hodge

#11. Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'

Robin Quivers

#12. Contrary to the popular stereotype of abortion-seeking women as promiscuous teenagers or child-hating professionals, around 6 in 10 women who have abortions are already mothers.

Katha Pollitt