Akulah Roti Quotes & Sayings

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful! — Viktor E. Frankl

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. — David Kirk

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home. — Kelly Preston

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. — Julian Barnes

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth. — Roberto Bolano

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence. — Lewis Grizzard

When one makes enemies one knows that one's dangerous where it's necessary to be dangerous. — Ayn Rand

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers. — Ralph Nader

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. — Boz Scaggs

ONE SUNDAY MORNING, I climbed up to the light from a weighty and complicated dream, nothing of it left but a ringing in my ears and the ache of something slipped from my grasp and fallen into a crevasse where I would not see it again. Yet somehow - in the midst of this profound sinking, snapped threads, fragments lost and untrackable - a sentence stood out, ticking across the darkness like a news crawler at the bottom of a TV screen: — Donna Tartt

Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortunate things we have done, all the disturbing mistakes we have made. Yet this classical reflection is not a way of increasing conceit. It is rather a commitment to our own happiness, seeing our happiness as the basis for intimacy with all of life. It fills us with joy and love for ourselves and a great deal of self-respect. Significantly, when we do metta practice, we begin by directing metta toward ourselves. This is the essential foundation for being able to offer genuine love to others — Sharon Salzberg

I gave no prescriptions,
And those who have taken my moods for prophecies
Mistake the matter. — Louis Simpson

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things. — Freeman Patterson

I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace. — Casper Odinson Crowell

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin