Helen Mary > Helen's Quotes

“I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the windows, and all the things we’ll always have because we cannot possess them.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Par­adoxically, as her old life is dying and even the best remedies will not hide that fact, she is awake to her blood loss and therefore just begin­ning to live.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“We all begin as a bundle of bones lost somewhere in a desert, a dismantled skeleton that lies under the sand. It is our work to recover the parts. It is a painstaking process best done when the shadows are just right, for it takes much looking. La Loba indicates what we are to look for—the indestructible life force, the bones.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she
knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche con­ tinue to be killed off.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Fear always springs from ignorance.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,—the sweet, without the other side,—the bitter.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined; more strict than any of which we have experience. It is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death. It is fit for serene days, and graceful gifts, and country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare, shipwreck, poverty, and persecution. It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and the trances of religion. We are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life, and embellish it by courage, wisdom and unity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Without a rich heart,
wealth is an ugly beggar”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The trust that geeks and suits can develop for one another can get you through very tough times.”
― Bill Pfleging, The Geek Gap: Why Business And Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other And Why They Need Each Other to Survive

“It is those who were considered exceptional, eccentric, or even insane in their own time—those who did not change when the world around them did—whom we remember and admire today.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen.”
― Timothy Snyder (author), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.”
― Timothy Snyder (author), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“You have a limited amount of time to get things done during the course of a given day. It follows that you should limit the scope of your to-do list to accommodate this constraint. If you only have four hours at your disposal, make sure the items on your to-do list can be completed within that time frame. Otherwise, you’ll set yourself up for failure.”
― Damon Zahariades, To-Do List Formula: A Stress-Free Guide To Creating To-Do Lists That Work!

“Magical thinking underlies the I-don't-want-to-know-how-it-works-I-just-want-it-to-work view of technology. That may be a viable attitude for business people who don't want to take the time to understand their desktop computers, but it makes for a lethal combination when geeks and suits try to build businesses together.”
― Bill Pfleging, Geek Gap: Why Business And Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other And Why They Need Each Other to Survive

“Bruised and bleeding, he picked himself up and continued on. Eventually, he found a new path.”
― Spencer Johnson, Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work And In Life

“A better world won’t come about simply because we use data; data has its dark underside.”
― Mike Loukides, Ethics and Data Science

“People write about family in fictional form,” she said. “Fiction writers use details from life.”
― Lisa Brennan Jobs

“people who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

“Accomplish one small thing a day. Maybe it’s cleaning that counter, maybe it’s writing one thank-you note. Don’t make the task too difficult. For the rest, you’re healing a uterus; adding millions of cells to your baby’s brain (though it might sometimes feel as if they are being siphoned off from your own); developing his liver, heart, and lungs; boosting his immune system; and maintaining the integrity of his intestines … you’re a busy lady! All while sprawled comfortably on the couch. Multi-tasking raised to an art form!”
― La Leche League International, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

“Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.”
― F. Sionil Jose

“All that we did in this world was to salvage scraps of freedom.”
― Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle”
― Zack Burt, The Software Engineer's Guide to Freelance Consulting: The new book that encompasses finding and maintaining clients as a software developer, tax and legal tips, and everything in between.

“Why should any of these things that happen externally, so much distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing, and cease roving and wandering to and fro. Thou must also take heed of another kind of wandering, for they are idle in their actions, who toil and labour in this life, and have no certain scope to which to direct all their motions, and desires.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I imagined that my own life was simple and sweet, and sometimes it was, but there were odd things going around town. There were rumors. There were stories. Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album: Essays

“Our painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“Change is about noticing what’s no longer working and stepping out of the familiar, imprisoning patterns.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice