Desejar Feliz Quotes & Sayings

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God's existence, God's justice, God's love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living. — Erich Fromm

Flannery revealed she had been working on the novel "a year and a half and will probably be two more years finishing it." She described her writing habits in a letter dated July 13: "I must tell you how I work. I don't have my novel outlined and I have to write to discover what I am doing. — Flannery O'Connor

People must know who dem be, must remember what important." - Tanty to Nikki in Oh Gad! — Joanne C. Hillhouse

By writing much, one learns to write well. — Robert Southey

By the light of the hominy fire Sixo straightens. He is through with his song. He laughs. A rippling sound like Sethe's sons
make when they tumble in hay or splash in rainwater. His feet are cooking; the cloth of his trousers smokes. He laughs.
Something is funny. Paul D guesses what it is when Sixo interrupts his laughter to call out, Seven-O! Seven-O! — Toni Morrison

The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most. — Greg Plitt

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation? — Richard Baxter

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm. — Pablo Picasso

How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful. — Bobbi Brown

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. — Terence McKenna

Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice. — Dan Simmons

To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of Government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of Government to prevent much evil; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity] — Edmund Burke

In Shadwell's simple world, anyone in sunglasses who wasn't actually on a beach was probably a criminal. — Terry Pratchett