Batalha Monastery Quotes & Sayings

I do my job like I breathe - so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble. — Karl Lagerfeld

Change is always trivial compared to what doesn't change. — Marty Rubin

Death is [ ... ] the blackboard on which life is written. — Osho

True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people. — Y. C. James Yen

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. — Geraldine Brooks

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief. — Simon Mawer

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover. — Jonathan Franzen

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work. — Joan Osborne

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change. — John Monks

But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is unimaginable that he actually could have believed it, then we may say that he chose to pretend it might be. Very well, says Truth, you may pretend this. But the pretense will be, literally, your undoing. It will unmake you. You will have opted for something that is not, namely, a lie. Hell is built of lies. — Thomas Howard

All you want is love and belonging, and your very existence depends on it. But when you get it, you have no existence except that love; there's still no you. — Kiera Van Gelder

O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness! — Philip Sidney