Contrariamente In English Quotes & Sayings

At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among external sensations the only one possible for me was reading. Reading was, of course, a great help. It stirred, delighted, and tormented me. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise. — Donald Tusk

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you begin to see that this assignment of extreme virtue or evil to a person or object is what makes them an object of lust or hatred, the emotion built on that exaggeration backs off; we — Dalai Lama XIV

All the variety of species of life created be,
By combination of three basic material energy;
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These Guna modus operandi of material energy,
They are called tamo, rajo and sattva clearly;
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Tamo-guna associated with inertia, ignorance be,
The rajo-guna associated with passion, activity;
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Sattva-guna associated with goodness, harmony,
And all three of them associated with thinking truly.
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The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life. — Don DeLillo

I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did. — Jose Andres

To be content with death may be better than to desire it. — Thomas Browne

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away. — Ian K. Smith

Gemma." He shakes his head. "This is happening between us. — Julie Johnson