8282480796 Quotes & Sayings

Empowerment requires a major shift in attitude. The most crucial place that this shift must occur is in the heart of every leader. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype. — Alice McDermott

And here I always thought morality was useless — Jeff Lindsay

So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees. — Arthur Schopenhauer

They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes of men in their generations and are passed on to their children and are not so easily come by otherwise. — Cormac McCarthy

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WHAT TO BEGIN NEXT

I can't decide what work, what study, to being next, among the several possible. If there is no spirit, no soul, no divine dimension or value, then whatever we do is just killing time, meaningless and idle. On the other hand, if God and the mystery of spirit overlap with this time and place in simultaneous layering, then anything we work on performs eternity and is the very motion of mystery. Each gesture and word and idea appears in this moment's presence and in the other as well. This is a great truth of being.

Whether a particular actions leads toward a future heaven or hell is not worth considering. Even when you will die is not important. Eternity creates itself at this point. This moment is where you grow nearer and nearer God. Time and the infinite curl together in every nick, touch, taw, tine, and root fiber. Here and now is where you can be shown the miracle of what continuously occurs. — Bahauddin

A complicated idea is a confused idea. — Marty Rubin

Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled. — Freya Stark

Only a wall divided him from those happy young contemporaries of his with whom he shared a common mental life; men who had nothing to do from morning till night but to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Only a wall - but what a wall! — Thomas Hardy

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty. — Richard Sibbes

The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter. — Ellen Glasgow

If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. — Yongey Mingyur

We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death. — Immortal Technique