Sailmaker By Alan Spence Quotes

#1. Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Mao Zedong

#2. Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind)

Rachel Naomi Remen

#3. Private Zombie, did your mother have any children that lived?"
"Sir! Yes, sir!"
"I bet when you were born she took one look at you and tried to shove you back in!

Rick Yancey

#4. Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You're already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you've got.

Kelley Armstrong

#5. Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology ('Just do it!') to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression. It

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

Frank Sinatra

#7. Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Constantin Brancusi

#8. Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

A.B. Simpson

#9. I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.

Ed Sheeran