Joyanna Wendt Quotes

These kinds of comments throughout early sessions establish the therapist as someone who knows about the past, is not afraid to talk about it, and understands how the current environment is filled with reminders of past traumatic events. ~ Joyanna L. Silberg

I like to keep busy. ~ George Wendt

We can't rewalk the exact footprints
we make in the stories of our lives
but we'll hear again our footprints
like the lullabies our parents sang us
the moment our stories end
Perhaps out of our footprints
our children will nurse wiser lullabies ~ Albert Wendt

The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable. ~ William Wendt

You don't love someone because they're a dream of perfection. You love them because of the way they meet their challenges, how they struggle to overcome. You love them because together, you bring out the best in each other. ~ Lani Wendt Young

Up to a few years ago nearly all the literature about Oceania was written by papalagi and other outsiders. Our islands were and still are a goldmine for romantic novelists and filmmakers, bar-room journalists and semi-literate tourists, sociologists and Ph.D. students, remittance men and sailing evangelists, UNO experts, and colonial administrators and their well-groomed spouses. Much of this literature ranges from the hilariously romantic through the pseudo-scholarly to the infuriatingly racist; from the noble savage literary school through Margaret Mead and all her comings of age, Somerset Maugham's puritan missionaries/drunks/and saintly whores and James Michener's rascals and golden people, to the stereotyped childlike pagan who needs to be steered to the Light. ~ Albert Wendt

Perfect moments. They're rare, few and far between. Hold them close when you find them. They will give you strength when the storms comes. ~ Lani Wendt Young

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance. ~ Hans Hinrich Wendt

Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa. ~ George Wendt

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable. ~ George Wendt

Women. Can't live with 'em, pass the beer nuts. ~ George Wendt

Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping. ~ George Wendt

His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi's kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy. ~ Lani Wendt Young

I not only get recognized - I get recognized from behind. ~ George Wendt

I like journalists. ~ George Wendt

You will be the one chosen to reach out to embrace man once again as the heart. So that all will be as it should. 'Fatu-ma-le-ele-ele' You will give your fire so that Man may live. And he will give his heart so that earth may live.
Thus it has been spoken. ~ Lani Wendt Young

They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice.
They lied. ~ Lani Wendt Young

I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire. ~ William Wendt

Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable. ~ George Wendt