Boavida Neto Quotes & Sayings

We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness. — Scott Jurek

The wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour. — Niccolo Machiavelli

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. — John Henry Newman

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world. — Louise Closser Hale

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides. — Ricky Ponting

I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it. — Flannery O'Connor

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary. — Jaggi Vasudev

What is the origin of God? — John Clayton

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion. — Aml Ameen

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule. — Elizabeth Goudge

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows. — Sydney J. Harris

Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Fart and you're on your own. — Peter James West