Carissas Tutu Quotes & Sayings

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. — Cory Doctorow

One may be an excellent pianist, mathematician, gardener, or scientist and still be cranky and jealous, but in the West one can be considered a great moralist and yet not live by one's moral principles. We must simply recall here the Buddhist requirement that a person and his or her teachings be compatible. Ethics is not like any ordinary science. It must arise from the deepest understanding of human qualities, and such understanding comes only when one undertakes the journey of discovery personally. An ethic that is built exclusively on intellectual ideas and that is not buttressed at every point by virtue, genuine wisdom, and compassion has no solid foundation. — Matthieu Ricard

She marvelled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him! She deemed it her crime most to be repented of, that she had ever endured and reciprocated the lukewarm grasp of his hand, and had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own. And it seemed a fouler offence committed by Roger Chillingworth than any which had since been done him, that, in the time when her heart knew no better, he had persuaded her to fancy herself happy by his side. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt. — Mason Cooley

Believing you are good is like believing in the half moon. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. — James Reston

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. — James Bryce

I'm no different than any other expendable player. — Mo Williams

Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full. — Charles Simmons