Schaffner Press Quotes

#1. If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.

Tony Evans

#2. If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.

Dalai Lama

#3. Why not ask yourself whether your other dreams are real? You go on trips and undergo the strangest experiences every night. How do you know they only take place in your mind?

Walter Moers

#4. Yes, that's right ... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#5. My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

Yann Martel

#6. A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we're tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories have a way of helping us make sense of things.

Chuck Wendig

#8. Grief produces an abundant energy that must find a way to burn itself up. And that is the fundamental problem, one that can take a lifetime to exhaust.

Bill Carter

#9. Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions.

Janet Scudder

#10. One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Guillaume Apollinaire