Sybilla Masters Quotes

#1. If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Nathaniel Branden

#2. An ant lifts a stone because it believes in itself, not its obstacle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Meher Baba

#4. I try to remember what it was like to be a kid in New York. I lived in different parts of my childhood in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, where 'When You Reach Me' is set, and also in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.

Rebecca Stead

#5. Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy," Wren said. "It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

Robert Rauschenberg

#7. A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

#8. The secret of blending in, is don't try to. Everyone is so fucking self-obsessed.

Robert Bryndza

#9. A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Don DeLillo

#10. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

Malcolm X

#11. The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

Saint Augustine