Vautrin Quotes

#1. In keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others.

Sebastian Junger

#2. It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make one-third of the money?" My answer is that I'm trying to do it ethically. What does that mean, exactly? That conflict is a big part of my art.

Ben Sollee

#3. Cookie dough," I explained. "My booty is carefully crafted from copious intake of cookie dough." "Whatever

Kristen Ashley

#4. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

#5. Every drop of rain hit the ground with such force it bounced back up again, giving the earth the appearance of something boiling.

Ann Patchett

#6. It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that they repel each other.

George MacDonald

#7. Only after you've done the exorcism, then
you'll understand that ghost's also a species.

Toba Beta

#8. Eponine and Azelma did not notice Cosette. To them she was like the dog. These three little girls could not count twenty-four years among them all, and they already represented all human society; on one side envy, on the other disdain.

Victor Hugo

#9. I need you to know that I adore you. I worship you. I don't just love you, Nila Weaver. I treasure you. I've never had anything so goddamn precious as you.

Pepper Winters

#10. Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

Mae Jemison

#11. Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

Colin Beavan

#12. Start by writing the truest sentence you know

Ernest Hemmingway

#13. A lot of people think moving will solve their problems, when what they're really doing is running away.

Roxanne Snopek

#14. The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Joseph Joubert