Aroundthem Quotes & Sayings

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop

Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile. — A.D. Posey

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one. — Viktor E. Frankl

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists. — Louis D. Brandeis

mine is an ongoing subsection more passive than any passivity. — Erin Moure

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. — Sylvia Plath

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton

Therefore, if we would listen to the voice of God15 with due reverence, the soul must stand upright, and not lean on the affections of sense for support. As the prophet Habakkuk says of himself, "I will stand upon my watch, and fix my step upon the munition, and I will behold to see what may be said to me."16 To stand upon the watch is to cast off all desires; to fix the step, is to cease from reflections of sense, that I may behold and understand what God will speak to me. Thus out of this night springs first the knowledge of one's self, and on that, as on a foundation, is built up the knowledge of God. "Let me know myself," says St. Augustine, "and I shall then know Thee, O my God," for, as the philosophers say, one extreme is known by another. — San Juan De La Cruz

We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time. — Dan Millman

Was there in '63, when I was barely eighteen. But now — Cheryl Strayed

The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many young people whose lives are touched by the pain and delinquency that so often accompanies a life of poverty. Therefore, these parents live in fear for their children's future
fear that they'll lose control, that the children will wind up on the streets or, worse yet, in jail. — Lillian B. Rubin

If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there. — Lewis Thomas

It is in vain when conscience is aroused to fly to feelings and evidences for comfort; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon