Colettas Appling Quotes & Sayings

My father ... used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity. — Sylvia Boorstein

There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play. — Romulus Linney

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination — Sydney, Lady Morgan

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind. — Seneca The Younger

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end. — Dogen

Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible! — Seth Adam Smith

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice. — Jim Wallis

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center. — Josiah Strong