Concilios Limenses Quotes & Sayings

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. — Rainer Maria Rilke

even our best efforts to control our lives are ultimately not good enough. Christ alone is the solid rock on which a (w)holistic response to stress can stand. Stress reminds us of our limitations, and our limitations remind us of our mortality. An appropriate and adequate response to pastoral stress must recognize the existential questions that are raised, the human responsibility to use what God has given us, and the theological truth that in and of ourselves we can do nothing. — Gary L. Harbaugh

But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid. — Margaret MacMillan

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else. — Doug Davidson

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce. — Michael Oxley

Tokyo is a model of that serial big-bang theory of the universe. It explodes at five P.M. and people matter is hurled to the suburbs, but by 5 A.M. the people-matter gravity reasserts itself, and everything surges back toward the center, where mass densens for the next explosion. — David Mitchell

Could not have seemed to myself further from my hopes when I was nearest to her. The — Charles Dickens

Why go on clinging to this clod of earth, this way of life, why pay heed to what your neighbour says? It is so parochial to bind oneself to views which are no longer binding even a couple of hundred miles away. Orient and Occident are chalk-lines drawn before us to fool our timidity. I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught which, nevertheless, did not exist a few thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion, love, and forgiveness, however, are not luxuries. They are fundamental for our survival. — Dalai Lama XIV

Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels — Jill Shalvis

Alix literally felt like the only piece of meat at a kennel as a team of women descended on her to trim her hair, tweeze her brows - something that had to have been invented by a sadist - and make her face over. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sometimes what you have planned, is nothing like the plan your soul invited you, to this earth for. — Nikki Rowe

Mostly it is those memories - the things that you did not do that kill you later, when it is too late. — Preeti Shenoy

Warden wore his comparatively new tan suit of Forstmann tropical worsted with the saddle-stitched lapels that had cost him $120 tourist prices, and that he saved for great occasions. But all the way into town he was furious with himself for coming. His hand hurt him and was swollen fatly and that also was her fault. He wished furiously he had stayed with Pete and the guys, forgetting how miserable he had been with them. He wished furiously he had left her and the rest of these middle-class society women to the gigolos who were neurotic enough themselves to be able to understand them. He wished furiously a lot of things. Once he even wished furiously he was dead and in hell. He knew then that he was in love.

- From Here to Eternity ; James Jones. — James Jones