Sugiki Portis Quotes

#1. How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Michael Cox

#3. There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

Jill Stein

#4. There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.

Iain M. Banks

#6. I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Jim Carrey

#7. Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake, but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us, but specifically to self-sacrifice: not to unselfing ourselves, but to unselfishing ourselves.

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

#8. I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

Martin Yan

#9. It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.

Robert Cormier