Descotoinc Quotes & Sayings

Happiness celebrates how we feel, but we can rejoice over what we know is true regardless of feeling. Joy is the realization that we no longer have to live under our own power. The expression of thanks and the vocalization of delight and hope for a greater purpose that we know nothing of is fullness of joy. In that dark prison ward, the ten Boom sisters felt a pleasure not in the fleas but in the God who allowed them. They rejoiced not in the hunger and sickness but in the God who never forgets or rejects those who love Him and seek His face (p. 44). — Hayley DiMarco

Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external. — J. P. Blake

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place. — Michael Jackson

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to. — Wyclef Jean

My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love. — Mason Cooley

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe. — Gautama Buddha

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born. — Hun Sen

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious work as his required composition. As a self-described atheist, Bizet felt uneasy and hypocritical writing a religious piece. Instead, he submitted a comic opera. Publicly, the committee accepted, acknowledging his musical talent. Privately, the committee conveyed their displeasure. Thus, early in his career, Bizet displayed an independent spirit that would be reflected in innovative ideas in his opera composition.
[The Pearl Fishers - Georges Bizet, Virginia Opera] — Georges Bizet

There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Sight of Dawson running on the opposite side of the street, — Nicholas Sparks

As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to "watch one's health" as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient. — Thomas Ligotti

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great. — Alexander Pope

True enjoyments also keep people from vice. — Samuel Johnson

Speak not of peoples and laws and
Kingdoms, for the whole earth is
My birthplace and all humans are
My brothers. — Kahlil Gibran

It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods ... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake ... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith ... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith. — Soren Kierkegaard