Burbano Leon Quotes & Sayings

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. — George Santayana

My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically fit; she was on the basketball team in high school in St. Louis in the 1920s, when women didn't do that. And she taught me to play tennis, taught me to walk and run, and I ran for 30 years pretty religiously. — Dick Gephardt

Kenny rested his hand on my leg, patting it delicately. His thoughts staying just that, thoughts, as we drove in silence, back to my prison of paradise, back to the one place I knew I could be happy, yet miserable, all in the same day. — Holly Hood

Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible. — Kay Redfield Jamison

A dutiful son has to remember not to slouch or swear or, in Hamlet's case, murder the old bat. — Mark Forsyth

Seek guidance for outer action, but be even more concerned with the desires of the heart, that they be consistent with the character of the Lord Jesus Christ. Never did He call upon men for protection, nor even upon angels, although they were sent to minister to Him. It was His own inner unification with the Father's heart that effected His preservation against all evil that was directed against Him. Even so, your own heart purity determines the extent of your personal preservation. — Frances J Roberts

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career — Conan O'Brien

One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes. — Jules Verne

We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle. — Dwight Edwards

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation. — James Bovard

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. — Carlos Castaneda

Daring is not saying, "I'm willing to risk failure." Daring is saying, "I know I will eventually fail and I'm still all in. — Brene Brown

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action. — Stanley Milgram

It was perhaps, the devil's oldest precept, that sin could always be trusted to reveal what was most human in a person as often for good as for ill. — Joe Hill