Debaucherous Bath Quotes & Sayings

When we see a rose, we immediately say, rose. We do not say, I see a roundish mass of delicately shaded reds and pinks. We immediately pass from the actual experience to the concept. — Aldous Huxley

What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas. — Carlo Rovelli

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone. — Diane Chamberlain

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom. — Bertrand Russell

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice. — Shunryu Suzuki

Once upon a time, when I was a child reading fairy tales, I'd ached to have my own adventures. Not that I'd wanted to be some dippy heroine languishing in a tower, awaiting rescue. No, I'd wanted to be the knight, charging into battle against overwhelming odds, or the plucky country lass who gets taken on as an apprentice to a great wizard. As I got older, I'd found out the hard way that adventures are rarely anything like the books say. Half the time you are scared out of your mind, and the rest you're bored and your feet hurt. I was beginning to believe that maybe I wasn't the adventurous type. — Karen Chance

I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered! — Moliere

One of the largest obstacles to discipleship is that too many people think of it as being an optional component of faith. We tend to relegate discipleship to the clergy or to someone with a special mission. The fact is, however, that if we call ourselves by the name of Jesus, we should be a disciple ourselves and should be making disciples of others. — Darren N. Huckey

Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. (34) Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.(7) Our reality, our true self, is hidden in what appears to us to be nothingness ... We can rise above this unreality and recover our hidden reality ... (281) God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. (41) — Thomas Merton

May they rest in eternal peace. — Gordon Pinsent

He left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. Genesis 39:12 In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We have to make the effort to heal words by using them properly and carefully. — Thich Nhat Hanh