Asja Rigik Quotes & Sayings

God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people. — Max Anders

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning. — Hafez Ibrahim

But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon life, he had forgotten one little fact-that death will come, and all ends; that nothing was even worth beginning, and that there was no helping it anyway. Yes it was awful, but it was so. — Leo Tolstoy

Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days. — Robin Roberts

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly

We must know the truth; and we must avoid error,
these are our first and great commandments as would-be knowers; but they are not two ways of stating an identical commandment, they are two separable laws. Although it may indeed happen that when we believe the truth A, we escape as an incidental consequence from believing the falsehood B, it hardly ever happens that by merely disbelieving B we necessarily believe A. We may in escaping B fall into believing other falsehoods, C or D, just as bad as B; or we may escape B by not believing anything at all, not even A. — William James

Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. — Roland Barthes

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal. — Swami Vivekananda

Even if we don't want to admit it, the ability to overcome most obstacles is within our hands. We can't blame family, society, or history if our work is meaningless, dull, or stressful. Admittedly, there are not too many options when we realize that our job is useless, or actually harmful. Perhaps the only choice is to quit as quickly as possible, even at the cost of severe financial hardship. In terms of the bottom line of one's life, it is always a better deal to do something one feels good about than something that may make us materially comfortable but emotionally miserable. Such decisions are notoriously difficult, and require great honesty with oneself. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts. — George Ayittey

Gilly Gilleshpee — Victoria Laurie

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. — Robert Frost

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught. — Ai Weiwei

They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine. — Arundhati Roy

So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family. — Arne Duncan