Quotes of: Francis Keyword

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Aditya warned, 'Be careful Nandini. Don't fall in love with the wrong man or you'll die of a broken heart.

Right Fit Wrong Shoe

Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all.

The Rose Society

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Hacemos lo que hacemos porque hay algo que podemos hacer al respecto. Las cosas como «¿cuanto tiempo?» y «¿que pasará?» no forman parte de eso. Se trata de esperanza, no del horror.

Scarlet

But never in all her human days had her blood bubbled with such a golden exultation and such blissful freedom as now when she ran, a werewolf, across the marsh.

Sudenmorsian

What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.

Seduce the Darkness

He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen.

Seduce the Darkness

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Saint Francis

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

The Shining Girls

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

The Shining Girls

I'm scared, Mom." ... "It's okay, honey. It's all right. That's the big secret, don't you know? Everyone is. All the time.

The Shining Girls

Holy fellatio! You are standing there licking him up with your eyes! Do you freaking hear the old seventies porn music playing in your head?

Saving Grace

Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it's broken.

The Shining Girls