Aslatua Quotes & Sayings

When the soul is solidly rooted in ... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the heart is toward the one supreme Good, then the words of the apostle will be fulfilled. 'Pray without ceasing,' he said (I Thes. 5:17). 'In every place lift up pure hands, with no anger and no rivalry' (I Tim 2:8). Sensibility is, so to speak, absorbed by this purity. It is reshaped in the likeness of the spiritual and the angelic so that all its dealings, all its activity will be prayer, utterly pure, utterly without tarnish. — John Cassian

It is the strength of any emotion, not necessarily its pleasantness, which makes a place important. — Stuart Cloete

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. — Winston S. Churchill

Let us think, let us love
Just for a day, just for a night
Let us find peace and happiness
Deep in our heart with spiritual light. — Debasish Mridha

Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential. — Dan Millman

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow. — Andrew Clements

Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn't got? I never tried to deceive you by pretending I was anything I wasn't. I was just pretty and gay. You don't ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair; you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon. — W. Somerset Maugham

Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong. — Sandy Blair

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe. — Clare Boothe Luce

Nicholas: If your goal was to have me

meet the Sisters of Mercy sporting a stiffy

- mission accomplished. — Emma Chase

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it. — Cecil Murphey

Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no. — Andrew Smith

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. — Joseph Joubert

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go. — Samuel Goldwyn

There are times I'm completely uncomfortable with my works being performed publicly, and I haven't attended certain concerts because the prospect is akin to having a diary read on stage. But there are also situations - whether with an audience of one, or many - where the concert experience can be deeply special, and those experiences are often unpredictable, and wonderful when they occur. — Michael Hersch