Breffni Academy Quotes & Sayings

Love is the essence of God ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same. Those returning in such ships were invincible, for they had managed it and could reflect ever after on Anne Hathaway's Cottage or the Tower of London with a confidence that did generate at Sydney. There was nothing mythic at Sydney; momentous objects, beings and events all occurred abroad or in the elsewhere of books. — Shirley Hazzard

I was feeling particularly nasty tonight. Or maybe it was the darkness in me. Sort of PMS on crack. — Shea MacLeod

I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing. — Alex Parks

Hypocrite shouts about the change,
but never let risk coming on his way. — Toba Beta

Psalm 46: 10 tells us there is a kind of knowing that comes in silence and not in words-but first we must be still.
The Hebrew word translated "Be still" literally means "Let go of your grip. — Ruth Haley Barton

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction. — C. H. Dodd

He feared her hatred more than any sword. — Maeve Greyson

All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This — Patrick Lencioni