Abola Quotes & Sayings

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry. — Jaggi Vasudev

If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything. — Brian Logan Dales

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have. — Wayne W. Dyer

Don't resist. Accept it to create memories, and then let it go. — Debasish Mridha

When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world. — Robin Sharma

done everything backward. She'd done everything, forever, by the book. The right way. Until then, I'd only learned this about grace: sometimes, like in my case, you get blessed for no reason. You get something wonderful that you don't deserve. But on that day, I learned that the flip side is also true: sometimes you get screwed for no reason. You get something awful that you never, ever deserved. It all slips away. You cannot earn yourself an easy life or even a fair one. Soon — Glennon Doyle Melton

To think something of yesterday and to realized that you can't do anything to changed it. Worst feeling ever! — San Sai R.A

Just when he thinks he's adjusting to anxiety as a constant condition, Jake feels several internal organs shrinking. — Peter Blauner

Make time for civilization, for civilization won't make time. — Liu Cixin

For what else is nostalgia but this? That immense ache in the heart that seems immeasurable, massive, spilling over the future that longs for things that can no longer be. (Foreword to Exie Abola's Trafficking in Nostalgia) — Rica Bolipata-Santos

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection. — Mahatma Gandhi

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. — Amelia Earhart

In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still has to take it and swallow it. — Xiaolu Guo

For the contemplative there is no cogito ("I think") and no ergo ("therefore") but only SUM, I AM. Not in the sense of a futile assertion of our individuality as ultimately real, but in the humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells, with infinite sweetness and inalienable power. — Thomas Merton