Borkowska Monia Quotes & Sayings

Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a righteousness or like a worship, not done unless it be done all I can. For the heart must run forth without measure like a child, and kindness be wound around like a child's arms about the neck, not by measure, but as tightly and as long as they can be. — James Vila Blake

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. — Pope Pius IX

Emotions and the feelings are not a luxury, they are a means of communicating our states of mind to others. But they are also a way of guiding our own judgments and decisions. Emotions bring the body into the loop of reason. — Antonio R. Damasio

I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough. — Jan Karon

Sometimes you have to be cruel ... in order to be even crueler. — Michael O'Donoghue

Justice
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes. — Langston Hughes

The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes ... — Daniel Gillies

..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide... — Michel Leiris

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader. — Emilia Clarke

Material things should complement a good life, not be used as indicators of a good life. — Joan Ambu