"Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."

-- Ogden Nash

#Birthday Quotes #Home Quotes #Night Quotes

“I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.”
“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”
“Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.”

Source : Anodea Judith, Lion Goodman (2012). “Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras”, p.25, Sounds True
“Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.”
“The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know,”
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
“I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.”
“A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.”

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