Berditchever Gut Quotes & Sayings

How do you make someone understand what it means or how it feels to be torn in half? Not many people know this desperate need to be put back together again. — Damien Echols

The need for meaningful symbols, beliefs, stories, and rituals by which to organize our lives and understand our purpose has not disappeared. In fact, we are starving for them. — Michelle M. Lelwica

Love the giver more than the gift. — Brigham Young

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy. — Mary Wollstonecraft

To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them. — Robin G. Collingwood

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits. — Rebecca West

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color. — Dennis Rodman

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. — Alan Hirsch

I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life. — Terry Fox

Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon. — Shai Tubali

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. — Elizabeth Lesser

We might begin by scanning our body ... and then asking, "What is happening?" We might also ask, "What wants my attention right now?" or, "What is asking for acceptance? — Tara Brach

All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that fact. — David J. C. MacKay