Abajur De Mesa Quotes & Sayings

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. — Rajneesh

Manfred," I began, exasperated, "I just don't know what to do with you."
"I have some very good ideas," he said. He waggled his eyebrows.
He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet. — Charlaine Harris

Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged. — Timothy Keller

Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible respect for translation as a creative, artistic practice - she insists that each English version is 'our book', offered to share her fees with me when she found out I wasn't getting paid for translating her publicity stuff, always asks the editor to credit me, and does so herself whenever she's interviewed. Too good to be true. — Deborah Smith

Malaria prevention and eradication should be inspired by General George Patton's advice: "A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan in a week." In this war of attrition, millions of people will be lost while waiting on researchers to finally emerge triumphant from their labs with the perfect malaria cure; yet meanwhile, there are plenty of time-proven, practical actions that individuals, families and communities can do today with what is already in hand that can decisively defeat malaria transmission if applied with vigor and disciplined consistency. — T.K. Naliaka

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised. — Marcus Aurelius

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. — Nathanael Emmons

I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ. — Heber J. Grant

I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way. — RJ Mitte

I do not wish to know what happened to Scout Finch. I wish her to remain forever young in my imagination, her future one of infinite possibilities. — Eric Rickstad

I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find. — Iris Apfel