Compersion Web Quotes & Sayings

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. — Eddie Cantor

So you're saying, we've got a, a shoggoth gap? — Charles Stross

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. — Anne Lamott

You always become the thing you fight the most. — Carl Jung

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things. — Marat Safin

Of course, prayer ought to permeate all we do in ministry, but it's especially important in fundraising. — Scott Morton

Inflation is taxation without legislation — Milton Friedman

Result won't come if we don't provide the reason for it to come. — Sunday Adelaja

On considering political societies, their origin, their constitution, and their effects, I have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt, whether the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness. He has mixed in his cup a number of natural evils, (in spite of the boasts of stoicism they are evils,) and every endeavor which the art and policy of mankind has used from the beginning of the world to this day, in order to alleviate or cure them, has only served to introduce new mischiefs, or to aggravate and inflame the old. Besides this, the mind of man itself is too active and restless a principle ever to settle on the true point of quiet. It discovers every day some craving want in a body, which really wants but little. — Edmund Burke

Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is. — Walter Mosley

Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind.

They put the pain there to let you know it hurts. — David Holmes

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. — Cormac McCarthy

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. — David Suzuki