Aarthun Family Quotes & Sayings

If you believe in the problem, then for the sake of balance you have to believe in the solution. — Jennifer Adele

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. — Henry Van Dyke

But then again (and this is one of my main complaints about the human consciousness): once you think a thought it is extremely difficult to unthank it. — John Green

we're willing to perform ultrasounds on rhinos — Elizabeth Kolbert

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It's all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself. — Thomas C. Foster

Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves. — Okakura Kakuzo

We can only suppose that Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not. A well known modem writer on the subject has remarked that "Buddhism in its purity ignored the existence of a God; it denied the existence of a soul; it was not so much a religion as a code of ethics". We can understand the appeal of this on the one hand to the rationalist and on the other to the sentimentalist. Unfortunately for these, all three statements arc untrue, at least in the sense in which they are meant. It is with another Buddhism than this that we arc in sympathy and are able to agree; and that is the Buddhism of the texts as they stand. — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

I was disquieted to realize that he had ceased to call me anything at all. That seemed impossible, but your children generally use your name when they want something, if only attention, and Kevin was loath to beseech me for so much as a turned head. — Lionel Shriver

The enlightened man is one with the law of causation. — Wumen Huikai

Don't wait speak now — Taylor Swift

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation. — Jenna Blum

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it. — T. S. Eliot

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather. — Alexei Sayle