Balbulus Quotes & Sayings

I can't force my students to learn and mature academically, socially, and emotionally. But I can offer incredible experiences that make them eager to learn. — Paul Solarz

Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world. — Rudolf Steiner

A story wearing another dress every time you hear it - what could be better? A story that grows and puts out flowers like a living thing! But look at the stories people press in books! They may last longer, yes, but they breathe only when someone opens the book. They are sound pressed between the pages, and only a voice can bring them back to life! Then they throw off sparks, Balbulus! Then they go free as birds flying out into the world. Perhaps you're right, and the paper makes them immortal. But why should I care? Will I live on, neatly pressed between the pages with my words? Nonsense! We're none of us immortal; even the finest words don't change that, do they? — Cornelia Funke

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market. — Warren Buffett

In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent. — David Ben-Gurion

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world. — Franz Kafka

This is what you have . . . that many don't: TIME — John-Talmage Mathis

Remember we are all connected by a garland we call love. — Debasish Mridha

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus — Cornelia Funke

No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive. — Norman Vincent Peale

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity — Confucius

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best. — Neale Donald Walsch

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world. — Peter Hedges

Saying 'no' to very bad legislation is not wrong. In fact, when the American people tell you that they don't want the health care bill, you've got a responsibility to say no. — Jon Kyl