Bistritzky Quotes & Sayings

A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that. — Albert Einstein

What is it that makes all our quarrels end in death nowadays? Whereas our fathers knew degrees of vengeance we now begin at the end and straightway talk of nothing but killing. What causes that, if not cowardice? — Michel De Montaigne

The mind, to ensure that it remains in control, seeks continuously to cover up the present moment with past and future, and so, as the vitality and infinite creative potential of Being, which is inseparable from the Now, becomes covered up by time, your true nature becomes obscured by the mind. An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they also keep adding to it every moment whenever they ignore or deny that precious moment or reduce it to a means of getting to some future moment, which only exists in the mind, never in actuality. — Eckhart Tolle

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, - the light which, showing the way, forbids it. — Kate Chopin

Having read literally thousands of them, I was sure I knew every which way of killing someone. I never thought a time would come when I would make use of it. — Mary Lou Kirwin