Christmas Potluck Quotes & Sayings

There's more to life than just surviving ... but ... sometimes just surviving is all you get — Charles De Lint

As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our centre-ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished. — Peter Greenaway

Subtly but definitively? Isn't that an oxymoron, you moron? — Lauren Gallagher

For the record," I interject, "I don't agree with Lo. I'm not a comic book elitist." Anyone can read comics, and if you don't it's perfectly okay to enjoy the characters in other mediums. — Krista Ritchie

In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Forgivers are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person. — Gordon Dalbey

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known. — Marcel Proust

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world. — Josef Pieper

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation. — Jim Hunt

The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much. — Michael Coren

Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation. — Debasish Mridha

I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings. — John Updike

By demanding for the worker real riches, which are not the riches of money but of leisure and
creation, he has reclaimed, despite all appearance to the contrary, the dignity of man. In doing so, and this
can be said with conviction, he never wanted the additional degradation that has been imposed on man in
his name. One of his phrases, which for once is clear and trenchant, forever withholds from his
triumphant disciples the greatness and the humanity which once were his: An end that requires unjust
means is not a just end. — Albert Camus

The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing ... is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being. — David Grossman