Batsios Etiketes Quotes & Sayings

What is a man," said Athos, "who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides. — Anne Michaels

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks. — Gore Vidal

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. — Denis Waitley

King Karma; I know that karma is a force in this universe, and that people will receive karmic justice for their actions. I know that this justice will come when the universe deems it appropriate and it may not be in this lifetime or the next, or the one after that ... but it will come. — Garth Stein

Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life. — Watchman Nee

Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see what you have seen. What you can do is stop believing that what occurred has somehow left you broken, damaged and wounded. While forgiveness ain't easy, it's the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart. — Iyanla Vanzant

Magical Realist writer write the ordinary as miraculous and the miraculous as ordinary. — Bruce Holland Rogers

God, fate was a sick, twisted bitch. Doomed. He was certainly and absolutely heading straight for the fiery pits of Hell, he realized, as he lusted for his sworn enemy, the vampire. — Marissa Clarke

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run. — Mitchell Zuckoff

How can one go from good [auspicious state] to pure (state)? There are no words for it. It will happen when the Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) gives the awareness of the Self; it will happen when He bestows God's grace upon you. — Dada Bhagwan

Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the male-to-female side of the coin have done sex work. I've done it myself for a couple of years. It's a place we can make a living and have some fun doing it. It's a place we seem to fit in. — Kate Bornstein

Walk your own path and be yourself — Joanne Nussbaum

But of course everything had conspired to spoil her entrance, which only went to prove what Janine already knew: that no matter how well you planned something, God always planned better. If He was feeling stingy that day and didn't want you to have some little thing you had your heart set on, then you weren't going to get it and that was all there was to it. — Richard Russo

I saw 'The Fountain' because my friend came over one day and said, 'This is my favorite movie I've ever seen. Please watch this,' and I watched it, and that was amazing. — Douglas Booth