Chuidian Quotes & Sayings

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you. — Woodrow Wilson

I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation. — Michael Bennet

If I give her the truth, then maybe I am released of its obligations. I can pass the truth to its rightful owner, and the frozen stars in my chest might finally ignite. — Nic Pizzolatto

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love. — Sharon Salzberg

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long ... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives. — Amalia Kahana-Carmon

For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin. — Nikki Sixx

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man. — Heinrich Heine

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose. — Paul G. Stoltz

Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen. — Karen Barber

The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask. — Mark Plotkin

We each had a hundred arms and on each arm a thousand eyes, so that, with our thoughts connected, not one sight in the vast waters went unseen. There was no need for sound, so there was no way to hear it. We tasted the waters, and, with our sight, that told us all we needed to know. We tasted the suns, so many leagues above the water, and turned their taste into the food we needed. — Stephenie Meyer

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. — Philip Johnson

May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own. — Watchman Nee

We're going to talk about the big things that matter, which are the little things, really. For me, Stars has always had one overarching theme, which is, we're all bastards, but God loves us anyway, whatever God means to you. — Torquil Campbell