Ascetic Synonym Quotes & Sayings

'Glamour's always special to me; they gave me one of my first U.K. covers, and I was so excited when I found out I got a cover for it, so, I always, always have a special place in my heart for 'Glamour.' — Rita Ora

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. — Sam Harris

MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth. — Rabindranath Tagore

But this is my contentment, that I've lost what I never needed and what I need I can never lose: these two things, universal nature and one's personal virtue.
For this is the intention of the creator of the world, whatever he may be - whether an all-powerful Deity, or some incorporeal Reason contriving vast works, or a divine Spirit pervading all things from the least to the largest with a uniform energy, or Fate, or an inalterable sequence of Causes clinging one to another - whatever the Intender, I say, this is his intention: that nothing of ours can fall under the control of others except that which is finally and truly worthless to us.
The best of any man lies beyond the power of other men, either to give it or take it away. — Walter Wangerin Jr.

Quivering eyelids closed over wild eyeballs. Paddleball heartbeat, awake beneath the costume of sleep. — Ainslie Hogarth

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. — Arthur Schopenhauer

After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets ... and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life. — Marilu Henner

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads. — Mary Harris Jones

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. — Vladimir Putin

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. — Myles Munroe

Sefi slinks around us, examining the alien Gold and the strange gear she carries. I like the way people talk when Sefi circles. Seems a little more honest. — Pierce Brown

But, I realized, these truths are all I have. They are my past. They are what makes me human. Without them, I am nothing. Nothing but an animal. I — S.J. Watson