Aleksejs Leal Quotes & Sayings

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. — Anna Julia Cooper

You don't have the courage of a half-bred mongrel. — Patricia Briggs

My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house. — Rumi

We emerged onto the ruined street, where gaps showed in the rows of buildings like missing teeth — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is. — Richard Linklater

Achievement brings its own anticlimax. — Maya Angelou

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else. — Bodhidharma

Poetry by its very nature is subversive ... It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades of gray. Never trust a poet. — Cristina Garcia

Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence. — Ellen G. White

Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground. — Thomas Boston

Thus I had already reached the conclusion that we are in no wise free in the presence of a work of art, that we do not create it as we please but that it pre-exists in us and we are compelled as though it were a law of nature to discover it because it is at once hidden from us and necessary. — Marcel Proust