Alfebetik Quotes & Sayings

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. — Nadine Gordimer

Time and time again people showed better qualities than we might dare to hope for, sometimes against all expectation. — Alexander McCall Smith

There is something you can do. You can smile. Sakura-chan, your smile is like food to a starving man for Syaoran-kun. — CLAMP

There is within us a fundamental dis-ease, an unquenchable fire that renders us incapable, in this life, of ever coming to full peace. This desire lies at the center of our lives, in the marrow of our bones, and in the deep recesses of the soul. At the heart of all great literature, poetry, art, philosophy, psychology, and religion lies the naming and analyzing of this desire. Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality . . . Augustine says: 'You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.' Spirituality is about what we do with our unrest. — Ronald Rolheiser

Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched ... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations ... we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture". — H. Ned Seelye

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless. — H.L. Mencken

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation. — Pope Francis