Aninkainen Quotes & Sayings

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing. — Raphael Zernoff

The meaning of life is to enjoy it. — Marty Rubin

Paper balls? You were throwing balled up paper at an alligator? — Gini Koch

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages. — Cressida Cowell

When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts. — Robert E. Quinn

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth. — Saint Augustine

Love is the conversation between possible, searing disappointment and a profoundly imagined sense of arrival and fulfillment; how we shape that conversation is the touchstone of our ability to love in the real inhabited world. — David Whyte

A sapient cat looking at humanity's salad garden buffet designed by God would not be seen as so much a paradise if the divine is seen as giving this to intelligent cats. It would be seen as quite the opposite. Since cats use plants as emetics and also lack the ability to taste sweet, Eden would be a rather hellish place. It would be a place where God might send a cat to punish the feline. This is because fruits and vegetation to eat would be a place to eat bland foods that cause one to vomit. It would hardly be a beneficial place for cats if this was a place of divine refuge where death did not exist. Again the immortal state would place cats in a rather hellish environment. — Leviak B. Kelly

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life ... "Not I, but Christ." — Vance Havner

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another. — Bernard Drainville

How the hell are you idiots allowed to run a country? I should have voted for a clown college. They'd at least have a reason for being this stupid. — Jonathan Maberry

Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously. — Billy Gardell

I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded. — David Cameron

Please tell me you aren't one of those people who subscribes to the 'say something nice or stay silent' philosophy. — Gena Showalter

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. — Tony Blair