Desmoulin Revolution Quotes & Sayings

Being human, we struggle constantly to stay with the miracle of what is and not to fall constantly into the black hole of what is not. This is an ancient challenge. As the Sufi poet Ghalib said centuries ago, Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not. Hearing what is can make you wise; hearing what is not can drive you mad. — Mark Nepo

FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved. — Beth Moore

While we cannot choose how we will die, we can always choose how we will live. — Robin Sharma

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not in the business of warning people. — John Bercow

How couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes! — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do. — Anita Roddick

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more. — Hill Harper

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends. — Leonardo Da Vinci

You must not speak ill of other persons. After all, everyone dies when their allotted span is over. — Soseki Natsume

For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that. — Robert Burns

As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the world within a world, the internet. The things outside of the web were becoming further from me, and everything inside it seemed piercingly relevant. The blogs of strangers had to be read daily, and people nearby who had no web presence were becoming almost cartoonlike, as if they were missing a dimension.
It was just happening, like time, like geography. The web seemed so inherently endless that it didn't occur to me what wasn't there. My appetite for pictures and videos and news and music was so gigantic now that if something was shrinking, something immesurable, how would I notice?
... Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine loosing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. — Miranda July

I'm just happy when people want me to work for them. — Kristin Davis

You best believe that I often tend to surpass what the rest achieve. — Drake

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus! — George S. Kaufman