Sedacca House Quotes

#1. All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"
and what a mistake.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. Why not, above all, learn to look more generously at each other as well as at ourselves?

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Ashton Applewhite

#3. I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing
his sense of personal dignity.

Arthur Miller

#4. Suffering is not objective. It depends largely on
the way you perceive. There are things that cause
you to suffer but do not cause others to suffer. There are things that bring you joy but do not bring others joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. Here's a little secret:love always disappoints. It's the concious choice to love someone or not love someone, despite the disappointment, that makes it beautiful.

Ty Roth

#6. I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of ... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

Claire Danes

#7. Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Brennan Manning

#8. One of the things I've read about borderlines is that we alternate between a sense of entitlement and the belief that we're lower than the dirt under people's shoes.

Stacy Pershall

#9. The worst thing about that kind of prejudice ... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Nina Simone

#10. A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. He talked about her in a way that only the obsessed do. It was always a pressured monologue, and it was always the same. He had to relate every detail, interpreting and seeking meaning in her every utterance or action, like a fundamentalist minutely analyzing a biblical text.

Jeanne Safer

#12. To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood ...

Lord Chesterfield