Danubio Rio Quotes & Sayings

Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex. — Laura Riding

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire. — Eve Ensler

The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things. — Thich Thien-An

Man is not at peace with his fellow man because he is not at peace with himself. He is not at peace with himself because he is not at peace with God. — Thomas Merton

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again. — Louise Erdrich

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists. — Otto Weininger

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. — Thomas Jefferson

When there is no one there to cheer you on through it, or the right kind of therapy team, it can be very disheartening for people — Amy Rankin

The paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings — G.K. Chesterton

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two. — Adrienne Rich

Married, Married, Married!
Buried!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah — Kurt Cobain

When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time? — Mohiro Kitoh

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. — Isabel Allende

When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you. — Sunday Adelaja

In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio. — Richard P. Feynman