Aquilina Quotes & Sayings

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one. — Mike Aquilina

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden

Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria. — Mike Aquilina

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully. — Mike Aquilina

Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure. — Honore De Balzac

I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it. — Paul Mooney

Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws ... — Lauren Aquilina

I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. — Wally Lamb

Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas. — Matthew Specktor

Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do. — Mike Aquilina

When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process. — Roberto Bolano

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations. — Mike Aquilina

If you are looking for truth, stick to the Way - for the truth is the Way. The truth is the destination to which you are going, and it is the Way by which you go. You are not going by one thing as your way to something else as your destination; you are not coming to Christ by something that is other than Christ. You are coming to Christ through Christ. — Mike Aquilina

There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid. — Lauren Aquilina

Belief is a wonderful and terrible thing. — R.S. Belcher