Arrants Quotes & Sayings

It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive. — David Healey

How can we walk with God, unless we are willing? — Lailah Gifty Akita

The hand is the visible part of the brain. — Immanuel Kant

If there was such a think as being tragically flawless and ferociously immaculate, then those were conditions that she definitely suffered from. — Jay Crownover

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world. — Andrew Clements

Joy of life is to be content. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Because love, compassion, and joy can lead to excessive attachment, their warmth needs to be balanced with equanimity. Because equanimity can lead to excessive detachment, its coolness needs to be balanced with love, compassion, and joy. Established together, these radiant qualities express mental harmony. — Jack Kornfield

Life is divided up into phases. Each one is very different from the others, and you have to be able to recognise what is expected of you in each phase. That's the secret of successful living — Kurt Vonnegut

The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke. — Stanley Baldwin

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same. — Gregory Orr

If you study something that nobody cares about, does that mean everyone will leave you alone? — Rainbow Rowell

A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it. — Barbara Demick

Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you. — Rajneesh