Betegelde Quotes & Sayings

Generosity involved in proactively forgiving other people. This form of generosity, and the positive feelings it evokes in generous forgivers, have been shown by studies to reduce stress, tension, and sadness, and to lead to lower heart rates, lower skin conduction levels, and lower blood pressure. By contrast, those who ungenerously hold grudges are more angry, feel less in control of their lives, and, partly as a result, exhibit symptoms of unhealthy physical conditions. — Christian Smith

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail. — George Orwell

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. — Seneca.

Call yourself a tea drinker all you want, but I know your sneaking in a cup of Kona.... — Justina Chen

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.
I think maybe we learn a few things each time that we don't forget. A few things that stick with us. It's just hard to pass those things on to those who come after us because if they didn't live through it, they don't view it the same way we do. If you don't experience something firsthand, it's a lot harder to accept. Terry Brooks, Bearers of the Black Staff, p 89 — Terry Brooks

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago. — Charlize Theron

Every relation need adjustments to survive, but those dies where one compromise.. — Debolina Bhawal

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned ... THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. — Ken Bruen

It's natural to want mercy for yourself but justice for others. It's natural to be very aware of the sin others, yet blind to your own. If we are ever going to be people of mercy, we need bountiful mercy ourselves, because what stands in the way of our being a community of mercy is us. — Paul David Tripp

To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave. — Mallika Nawal

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants. — Ross Perot

He told me that once, in the war, he'd come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn't speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier's head. He didn't do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another. — Libba Bray

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Baseball is religion without the mischief. — Thomas Boswell