Civitas Senior Quotes & Sayings

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. — Rumi

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved. — Arthur Lydiard

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful. — Irving Kristol

Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga. — Frederick Lenz

She looks at me as though she wants to both devour and strangle me. I chuckle softly. She's fucking adorable. — Ashley Stoyanoff

A bridge-like CIO has the mind to think via the multidimensional lens, the gut to innovate fearlessly; the strategy to lead wisely and the skill to move progressively. — Pearl Zhu

the purpose of a family on mission is to multiply the life of Jesus by reproducing ourselves into the lives of others, so they become disciples of Jesus who can then reproduce themselves into the lives of others. — Mike Breen

As it is he hears voices without form; they sing and sing, as they have from the beginning and will continue until the end. Chad borrows their melodies: That's the music part of the songs he wrotes.For words Ched uses rhymes from our village, the kind that nobody pays attention to anymore because they advocate living by a code that will surely make you one of life's losers. — Helen Oyeyemi

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream. — Dan Gable

It's hard to admit you're just in someone's periphery when you imagined you were closer to the center of their world. — Sarina Bowen

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh ... Is this true? — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that. — John Denver

I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass. — Jakob Dylan

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent. — Jackie Chan

Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom - the cold, dark air - that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears. — Richelle E. Goodrich