Asisi Tebet Quotes & Sayings

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — Edgar Degas

Memories establish the past;
Senses perceive the present;
Imaginations shape the future. — Toba Beta

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real. — Black Elk

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin

What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has. — Frederick Lenz

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be. — Anne Frank

My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make. — Joey Badass

According to a Confucian view, there are four steps in social develpment, wrote Wilhem (Sr.). There are the individual, the family, the state, and mankind. The West had always emphasized the individual and the state. Individual development is extolled, and the single human being is regarded as central and as an atom of society. Over-emphasis on the function of the individual has led to deterioration of the family. Unlike Westerners, the Chinese have given greater weight to family and mankind. The consciousness of the individual is contained in the family, and since traditional China considered itself the world, Chinese considered themselves responsible for humankind rather than for the state. — Hellmut Wilhelm

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly. — Rita Rudner

He'll say, You did this to me. Please. Not in front of my son. — Anthony Doerr

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two ... the Yanks have four. — Keith Hernandez

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel. — Alice Munro