Birindelli Empoli Quotes & Sayings

This chapter also explores the question, "Who is the true yogi?" This word yogi may bring to mind images of amazing people who do strange contortions with their bodies. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

One can do something if one can see and understand it ... — Claude Monet

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine. — Amelia B. Edwards

I've got to stay awake,' she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. 'There isn't time to sleep, I'd look consumptive, I'd sag like a tenement, and that wouldn't be fair: a girl can't go to Sing Sing with a green face. — Truman Capote

Angry, judgmental, and critical people don't make good evangelists. — John S. Leonard

He walked across the room and flicked a switch. A spotlight turned on, illuminating a laminated poster of a woman on his wall. He took a crayon from his pocket and began drawing on it. I could see smudges from past demonstrations. [. . .] His dashed lines crisscrossed the woman's chest as if he were planning a military maneuver on undulating terrain. — Kim Van Alkemade

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life. — Joyce Meyer

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret. — Jonathan Carroll

You can't do it all alone. Marriage is about two people, not one. — Kristin Vayden

Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to the yoke of communal servitude. Yet given a full chance to act in his own interest, nothing but expediency will restrain him from brutalizing, from maiming, from murdering his brother, his mate, his parent, or his child. Scratch an 'altruist' and watch a 'hypocrite' bleed. — Michael Ghiselin

Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche

How beautiful that is! said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind. — Louisa May Alcott

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity. — Tom Hollander