Akbulut Selman Quotes & Sayings

Whereas the angel "came" to Mary (Lk 1:28), he merely appears to Joseph in a dream - admittedly a dream that is real and reveals what is real. Once again this shows us an essential quality of the figure of Saint Joseph: his capacity to perceive the divine and his ability to discern. Only a man who is inwardly watchful for the divine, only someone with a real sensitivity for God and his ways, can receive God's message in this way. — Pope Benedict XVI

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one. — N.D. Wilson

When you start comparing with others, you fall into a trap with no way out — Dee Dee Artner

Land ownership is an entry monopoly: Land is naturally scarce for each location since its supply can't be increased... When people buy a piece of land, their ownership gives them the right to exclude the rest of society from the benefits afforded to them by their land, even though those benefits only arise from nature and from the presence of goods and services that have been provided by that same society in the first place. Buyers pay for exclusive access rights to land and pay only to the previous landowner instead of to all the people who are now excluded from the location privileges that this one particular piece of land provides. — Martin Adams

Man has been going through three kinds of wars. One is with nature; another is with other people and third is with himself. — Santosh Kalwar

I want him to know nothing but gentle landings. — Megan Mayhew Bergman

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy. — Anna Maxted

If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality. — David R. Brower

At seven, I didn't insist on my version of the world. — Eileen Favorite

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. — Frederick Buechner

The depreciation of the rouble keeps me awake at night, Dmitri Fyodorovitch; people don't know that side of me — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Service ... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. — MC Frontalot