Bergengruen Kaschubisches Quotes & Sayings

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us. — Arthur Alfred Lynch

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one. — Jaggi Vasudev

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. — Jackson Browne

Surrender is the quantum leap from mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness. And in a single step the whole journey is contained. It is not a long journey from you to God, it is a single-step journey. It is not a gradual phenomenon; it is not that slowly slowly, gradually you come to the divine. It is a quantum leap! One moment you were in darkness and the next moment all is light. All that is needed is to put the ego aside. — Rajneesh

My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability. — Christopher Fowler

What the hell just happened? I mean, come on. Throwing in a hot looking demon with romantic intentions is so disturbing. It's like Chax doing karaoke, way out disturbing. — Karen Swart

I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses. — Bethenny Frankel

In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light. — Antoine Lavoisier

Okay. So, apparently I find burly Indian men attractive. What's wrong with that? — Colleen Houck

End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena. — Heinrich Rohrer

It was all bad, very bad. And the worst of it was not that they had ceased waiting, but that they had ceased to have faith. — Georgi Vladimov

All tongues savor the same flavors, all ears hear the same music, and all eyes see the same beauty. — Mencius

When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment. — Goran Ivanisevic