17260 Quotes & Sayings

So let me just say this. There are ways. You already know that because, in your life, there have been High Kindness periods and Low Kindness periods, and you know what inclined you toward the former and away from the latter. Education is good; immersing ourselves in a work of art: good; prayer is good; meditation's good; a frank talk with a dear friend; establishing ourselves in some kind of spiritual tradition - recognizing that there have been countless really smart people before us who have asked these same questions and left behind answers for us. It would be strange and self-defeating to fail to seek out these wise voices from the past
as self-defeating as it would be to attempt to rediscover the principles of physics from scratch or invent a new method of brain surgery without having learned the ones that already exist. — George Saunders

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table. — A.W. Tozer

Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven. — Jurgen Klinsmann

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. — Saint Francis De Sales

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. — Mary McCarthy

Honor you? he breathed. Sweetest Erienne, how could I not? You are ever in my thoughts, bending me, plucking at the fibers of my mind. The man inside me trembles whenever you're near, and I groan with agony for the touch of your hand laid upon me in a soft caress. — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving. — Adam Rapp

Eloise thought that justice was a funny thing. It was a big idea, a romantic one. It was imagined like a satisfying end to a story. — Lisa Unger

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

It was. It will never be again. Remember. — Paul Auster