Diatriba In English Quotes & Sayings

Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they do it again to fit inside them! — Sinclair Dumontais

Every new day is the gift of a new divine grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilising the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest. — Sri Chinmoy

Broadhampton sat like a broken egg at the bottom of a glass bowl. — Maddie Grigg

It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Where your life leads you, you must go — Oscar Wilde

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW! — Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful. — Will Arnett

Western science sees the universe as "naturalistic." While other cultures see the world as consisting of both matter and spirit, Western thought understands it as consisting of material forces only, all of which operate devoid of anything that could be called "purpose." It is not the result of sin, or any cosmic battle, or any high forces determining our destinies. Western societies, therefore, see suffering as simply an accident. In this view while suffering is real it is outside the domain of good and evil. — Timothy J. Keller

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day. — Peter Biskind

You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits? — Confucius

He couldn't do anything now but sit and wait for La Familia to surface, and when they did, he'd be ready. — Joe Awsum

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. — Florence Littauer

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade ... — King James Gadsden

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. — Phillips Brooks