Bethinking Quotes & Sayings

And Burns
though brief the race he ran,
Though rough and dark the paths he trod,
Lived
died
in form and soul a man,
The image of his God. — Fitz-Greene Halleck

There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory ... everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do. — Neale Donald Walsch

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil. — John Dryden

I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented. — George Benson

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it. — Isadora Duncan

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing. — Jack Johnson

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. — Jerzy Kosinski

Safi was beyond anger. Beyond temper. This was her life now - forever running, forever changing hands from one enemy to the next until eventually the enemy severed her neck. It had been inevitable, really. Her magic had cursed her from the day she was born. — Susan Dennard

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them. — Nelson Mandela

We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!"
Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."
"Big doubts?" I said weakly.
The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said. — Kenneth Oppel

I masterbate in the shower. My action figures judge me. Especially the Justice League. — Tucker Max

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success. — Clay Aiken

The strong wind cannot last the whole morning, the torrential rain cannot last all day. It is nature that causes these things, but even nature cannot cause them to go on forever. If nature cannot do this, then certainly man cannot do so. — Lao-Tzu

The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species. — Thomas Berry

Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it. — Lester Levenson

Fie, fie, fond love, thou art so full of fear
As one with treasure laden, hemm'd with thieves;
Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear,
Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves. — William Shakespeare