Alphonsianum Quotes & Sayings

Never let the story beat you home. — Deondriea Cantrice

It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is our personal discovery that pain can be acknowledged, even held lovingly, that enables us to look at the pain around us unflinchingly and feel compassion being born in us. We need to start with ourselves. — Sylvia Boorstein

The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some hobbits, castles, dragons, princesses, and all that other shit. — Nnedi Okorafor

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws. — Karen Allen

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft — Nido R. Qubein

I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion. — Frank Zappa

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. — Honore De Balzac