Centonove Quotes & Sayings

Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being "at one" and therefore at peace. — Eckhart Tolle

Fishes are born in water Man is born in Tao. If fishes, born in water, Seek the deep shadow Of pond and pool, All their needs Are satisfied. If man, born in Tao, Sinks into the deep shadow Of non-action To forget aggression and concern, He lacks nothing His life is secure. Moral: All the fish needs Is to get lost in water. All man needs is to get lost In Tao. — Thomas Merton

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt ... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. — Comte De Lautreamont

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that. — Libba Bray

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything. — Martin Schoeller

Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully. — Richard P. Feynman

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition. — Henry David Thoreau

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do. — Sally Pearson

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks.
Which just figures.
"You gotta be kidding." I say.
One part of the road goes left, the other goes right.
(Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?) — Patrick Ness

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship. — Michael Pollan

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence. — George Bellows

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. — Homer

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed. — Gautama Buddha

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered ... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it! — Marcus Tullius Cicero