quotes about Pliers

“For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at that only in a negative way. You wanted to give your heart to others, and you did so quickly and easily. But now you are being asked to let go of all these self-made props and trust that God is enough for you. You must stop being a pleaser and reclaim your identity as a free self.”

“Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.79, The Floating Press

“The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.”

“So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.”

“Anything worth doing is worth over-doing.  Moderation is for cowards.”

“I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.”

“Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.”

“Today, the best way to communicate with someone is still face-to-face. Virtual reality has the potential to change that, to make it where VR communication is as good or better than face-to-face communications, because not only do you get all the same human cues as real-world communication, you basically suspend the laws of physics, you can do whatever you want, you can be wherever you want.”

“I will stop the motor of the world.”

“So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'”