Corrijo Quotes & Sayings

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe. — George Herbert

When you feel like you can't keep going, turn your heart to Allah and say this: I can't. But You can. I'm weak. But You're strong. Take me in, not because of me
but because of You. Your mercy is stronger than my weakness. Your perfection is greater than my humanness. I beseech You to replace what's lost, mend what's broken, and allow my hope in You to kill my despair. — Yasmin Mogahed

Neither of us could fully participate in our days, though later Suzanne would participate in a way she could never take back. I mean that we didn't quite believe it was enough, what we were offered, and Tamar seemed to accept the world happily, as an end point. Her planning wasn't actually about making anything different - she was just rearranging the same known quantities, puzzling out a new order like life was an extended seating chart. — Emma Cline

But should it matter what we do as long as we use our strength courageously and lead a life without desperation to the end? Isn't it wrong to escape, make a detour and be lost, all of which have led me here to the farthest-flung edge of the world? Wouldn't I have had a good courageous life if only I had been able to resist sickness and fear? Will I be made to face the consequences just because I had nothing to counter a nameless and agonizing desperation? — Annemarie Schwarzenbach

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl. — Madonna Ciccone

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture. — Ignazio Silone

Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift. — Christian Camargo

What you had to have is usually tabulated as follows: luck; the ability to adapt, immediately and radically; a talent for inconspicuousness; solidarity with another individual or with a group; the preservation of decency ("the people who had no tenets to live by - of whatever nature - generally succumbed" no matter how ruthlessly they struggled); the constantly nurtured conviction of innocence (an essential repeatedly emphasised by Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago); immunity to despair; and, again, luck. — Martin Amis

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids. — Daniella Monet

And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago. — Martin Amis

If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business ... We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is. — Thomas Merton

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you. — Thomas Merton

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. — Mahatma Gandhi

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate. — Michel Gondry