Gathering Quotes

“Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.'

'Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start it, or Skulduggery.'

Skulduggery shook his head. 'I can't start it. I don't like most of these people. I might start shooting.”
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

“A wrong product will make you a part of the crowd, but the right product will set you apart.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail:Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Embracing the Light

Collected bits of truth
Shimmering sparks
Shards of light
Merge
Healing
Restoring
Bursting Bright
Rising
in divine ecstatic flame.”
― Leonard Nimoy, Shekhina

“In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“The Gathering

According to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to make room for creation, spiritual energy filled the void. The energy poured into vessels which strained to hold the great power. The vessels shattered, sending countless shards, bits of the glowing matter, into the vastness of the universe.

These scattered bits of divine light must be collected. When the task is done the forces of the dark will be vanquished and the world will be healed.”
― Leonard Nimoy, Shekhina

“Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to his aunt's saying: If everyone is invited, no one is invited—in the sense of being truly held by the group. By closing the door, you create the room.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Everyone gathered around this drink in order to devote themselves to their favorite activity: discussion. This discussion had its own purpose: To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

“Somewhere along the line," Church "became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.”
― Todd Stocker

“Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Completeness is gathering the broken self and wholeness is gathering the complete self”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth...”
― Will Advise

“Some change at once went through them all, as if this had really happened, and they were all conscious of making a party together...; had their common cause against that fluidity out there... and now the same effect was got by the many candles in the sparely furnished room, and the uncurtained windows, and the bright mask-like look of faces seen by candlelight. Some weight was taken off them; anything might happen…”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Poetry keeps the door open to awe and ensures that we will find our way through the broken heart field of wars, losses and betrayals to understanding, compassion and gathering together.”
― Joy Harjo

“En un sens, le titre d’ancien, utilisé à son adresse par l’homme des bois, le ravit. C’est la reconnaissance implicite du peuple des bois à son égard, l’offre respectueuse de partager une existence en ces terres. Opinant du chef, Gibbie soutient:
- J’ai les paumes pleines de farine.
- Mes doigts sont percés d’échardes, agrée simplement Kardys.
Les bruits reprennent dans le moulin, chacun revenant à ce qu’il faisait. Le grand forestier poursuit:
- Alors, c’en était bien un…
- Un Pâle-de-la-Nuit, réaffirme lugubrement le meunier.
Et d’ajouter à la cantonade, avant de se replonger dans sa chope:
- Je l’ai vu et entendu comme je vous vois.”
― Cyrille Mendes, Les Épieurs d'Ombre

“Harvest is a joyful time of gathering the produce of the land”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Life is beyond hunting. And the Labour of gathering. It's all about love in the light of Life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“That evening we gathered in the dining room, a forty-foot-high-ceiling atrium with indoor plants and outdoor blooms separated by tall windows—the impression of great openness, even while sheltered.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Expressing a single idea should not require more than a single word, each idea fully quantifiable.

Optimization, and the opposite.”
― Monaristw

“Why would I do something for you. If I am not benefiting anything? Why would I entertain you? If you are not entertaining me. As a kind person. I might do It for once, twice even three times for you for free, but I can't do it every time. That will only Imply that I am stupid and I am your fool.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“In this gathering place, where violence is ripe, at the boundary of that which escapes cohesion, he who reflects within cohesion realizes that there is no longer any room for him.”
― Georges Bataille

“In this gathering place, where violence is rife, at the boundary of that which escapes cohesion, he who reflects within cohesion realizes that there is no longer any room for him.”
― Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion

“The worst thing the Hawaiian police could have done during the Thirty Meter Telescope protest was to send an army of police officers dressed in riot gear to a peaceful sacred gathering of native Hawaiians.”
― Steven Magee

“The dreamer, with love from all his heart,
slow to gather clouds will pick the part,
clouds, to clean the evening sky,
slowly, vexing since away they fly…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“You may talk if you wish," she went on absently, "but do it quietly. Now, you go, Master al'Vere. This is a sickroom, not a gathering hall. See that I am not disturbed.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“A place where exiles gather to talk of passion.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre