Berrante Para Quotes & Sayings

... did it make a difference if the remark never got back to the person about whom it was made? She thought not. The harm is done when the words are uttered: that is the act of belittlement, the act of diminishing the other, and it is that act which would cause pain to the victim. You said that about me? The wrong was located in the making of the cruel remark, rather than in the pain it might later cause. — Alexander McCall Smith

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes. — Anne Bronte

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother. — Ayn Rand

Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition. — Cynthia Heimel

The world system enslaves through jobs — Sunday Adelaja

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. — Henry George

Like a dog! he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him. — Franz Kafka

I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit. — Sarah Winman

The first beginning and its inceptuality The first beginning is the act of beginning in the sense of the disconcealing of disconcealment, but thus the emergence into the constancy of disconcealment in unconcealedness, but thus the appearing forth of the latter in the act of appearing, but thus the pressing forth of appearing as appearance, but thus the subjugation of unconcealedness, but thus the relinquishment of the inceptuality of the beginning, but thus the abandonment of the beginning to the advancement, but thus the commencement of the truth of being as the beingness of beings, but thus the priority of beings themselves as that which in the proper sense is present prior to presence. There is no "dialectic" here at all, neither that of being nor even that of the thinking about being. Essentially occurring here is the beginning of the first beginning and nothing besides this act of beginning. Recollection into this is already appropriation. — Martin Heidegger

You should have a personal link to your creator — Sunday Adelaja

For the first time in an age, he saw the beauty of the stars, rather than the darkness between them. — Darren White

There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required. — Stephen Richards