Aruban Quotes & Sayings

Be humble and kind. Kindness has power in it. Look at Mother Teresa, the truest example of kindness. She was humble, kind, and fragile yet she was also a symbol of power. I have never heard of a woman more powerful than her. When we hear name, we must bow our heads with deep respect. — Debasish Mridha

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place. — Helen Rowland

I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I haven't done it now to sound as though I might be proud of how bad, how evil, I was.
But people are always speculating-why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
Today, when everything that I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers. But I am spending many hours
because the full story is the best way that I know to have it seen, and understood, that I had sunk to the very bottom of the American white man's society when-soon now, in prison-I found Allah and the religion of Islam and it completely transformed my life. — Malcolm X

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup. — Spalding Gray

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ... — Carol Shields

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. — Robert Breault

I think there is a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian. There is something definitely inside the personality of a person who wants to be a comedian, and (he or she) is looking to connect (to the audience) at all times. — Chris Gethard

It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive". — Reese Roper

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right). — Oprah Winfrey

For the core of religion is the twinned principle of arrogance and fear. Fear of oblivion. Fear of an unfair life and an arbitrary universe. Fear of there simply being nothing, no great and grand scheme to existence. The fear, ultimately, of being powerless. — Aaron Dembski-Bowden

I enjoy meeting new people and feeling free to be myself for five seconds every single time. After that, they're not new anymore. — Robin Sacredfire

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns. — John Templeton

Johns, what the fuck are you doing?" Digger called. "You don't chat with ghosts, you fucking run like Scooby-Doo, man!"
"It's okay," Owen told them.
"Scooby-Doo!"
"Not okay," Nick cried. — Abigail Roux

I've gotta go now. Laura has this stupid thing she wants me to go to. There was a feminine yell in the background. This supremely wonderful and life changing thing she wants me to go to. — Sol Crafter

Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think one of life's most satisfying accomplishments for my wife and me is to have lived long enough to see our children become good friends. — Marlin K. Jensen