Schundler Ottoman Quotes

#1. You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

Louisa May Alcott

#2. Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.

Mary Gaitskill

#3. Anti-"lightbulb moment," the idea that comes into focus over decades, not seconds.

Steven Johnson

#4. I am too selfish to be a mother, I can barely tolerate being his lover at this point. I am selfish and I make no apology for that. ~Shannon~

A. Giannoccaro

#5. When you go upstairs, go up with high spirits; when you go downstairs, go down with high spirits.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Raymond Chandler

#7. I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

Flea

#8. Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology."

Hazrat Inayat Khan