Baudanza Quotes & Sayings

Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort. — Ismail Kadare

(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the heart, making meaning of experience and finding an organizing purpose that you build a unique individual self. — David Brooks

The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it. — Howard Zinn

When you think everything is someone else's fault, chances are that you're looking at the wrong side of the looking glass. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world. — Hiro Mashima

Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which he takes pains to create, this monotony which is slowly taking over the world, this monotony is the sign of our greatness. It bears the mark of a certain will-power, the will to utility; it is the expression of utility, a law that governs all our modern activity: the Law of Utility. — Blaise Cendrars

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you. — Joel Osteen

Love is the soul's battery. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again ... — Charlotte Alington Barnard

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true. — Dallas Willard