E.S. Russell Quotes
Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?
Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.
Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.
It is Halloween, ” he explains coyly. “I wanted to come out as something beautiful. None of this witch stuff for me. My God, don’t we spend our whole life as witches?
Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.
If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?
Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.
I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.
Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.
A friend comes over with a Ouija board.It spells out: Bourbon. Where’s the band?Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.
Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.
Once you finally cease all judgements you will also be freed from the need to forgive.
He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.
You attract only the people, situations and outcomes that you either want or need.
You get exactly what you want, Anatole’s always suspected, only when you get it it’s no longer what you want, you need something else.
Absolutely, love matters, ” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk.
Satisfaction: it's not something we find, it is something that happens while appreciating what we already have. - Keep your blessings in sight, front & center.
The heart never stops even if you stop your breath, Life goes on even if you go through death
He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.
Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!
My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.
My darlings! You can hardly expect an aged crone like me to mar such a lovely event. No, I shall remain here and knit shadows. Now go forth and shine bravely, and think of nothing but love.
Everything can be summed up into an equation.
When you judge anyone or anything you are ultimately judging another aspect of yourself.
See yourself in everything and everything in yourself. This is Oneness.
If you love someone or something, you acknowledge and are expressing your oneness with it. Love is simply the recognition of Oneness.
...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.
he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.
The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.
Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families, ” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
When you're the only pea in the pod your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
