Mignano Gap Quotes

#1. For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

Ken Wilber

#2. I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

David Nail

#3. The twelfth-century poet Abraham ibn Ezra, whom you encountered in high school as Browning's Rabbi ben Ezra (may his tribe increase), limpidly described the shlimazl's lot when he wrote: If I sold lamps, The sun, In spite, Would shine at night.

Leo Rosten

#4. Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Seth Godin

#5. To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Denis Diderot

#6. I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.

Michael Cooper

#7. Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Yoko Ono

#8. When Zoe didn't answer he glanced over to find her watching him with an almost pitying expression. He shot her a scowl. Obviously she didn't realize that SEALs didn't deal well with pity.

Kaylea Cross

#9. Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.
A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important.

Lorii Myers

#10. With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In India, he charmed a powerful provincial family and ended up making huge, sculptural relics in Chandigarh.

Masato Otaka

#11. You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

Ella Fitzgerald

#12. This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

Jane Rule

#13. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

#14. There are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

Richard Wright

#15. I probably should've thought about talking to Uncle Gary a lot earlier. He's been married something like four times already, so he's an EXPERT on relationships.

Jeff Kinney