Befooling Quotes & Sayings

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world. — Helder Camara

It is God who chooses, calls, and sends. When — Lesslie Newbigin

People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the joys of heaven. But it is the same trick, the mind is again befooling you. This is not the way of the intelligent person, this is the way of the stupid. — Rajneesh

There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. The only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, moving through it. Then any interpretation you like. If it's yours, then that's the right one, because what's in a book is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it. — William Golding

Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love — Sri Chinmoy

Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location. — Ogwo David Emenike

It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times — Munia Khan

Justice is having and doing what is one's own. — Plato

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally. — Daniel Goleman

Tools refer to one another to finally refer to our care for existing. In turning on a bathroom switch, we open up the entire ontological problem — Emmanuel Levinas

Stick to journalism, Mr Cort, where you never have to understand anything. — Iain Pears

Wisdom ruleth in counsel
so do riches. — Lancelot Andrewes

People hate themselves, people condemn themselves - they go on condemning; they go on thinking that they are rotten. How can the other love you, such a rotten person. No, nobody can love you really - the other must be befooling, cheating; there must be some other reason. She must be after something else; he must be after something else. You know your rottenness, worthlessness - love seems to be out of the question. And when some woman comes and says she adores you, you cannot trust. When you go to a woman and you say you adore her, and she hates herself, how can she believe you? It is self-hatred that is creating the anxiety. There — Osho