Dikke Borsten Quotes & Sayings

I finally know that joy does not come from avoiding a problem or having someone else deal with it for you. Joy comes from overcoming a problem or simply learning to live with it while being joyful. — Jim Stovall

I answer not, and I return no more. — John James Ingalls

Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history. — Eric Foner

If wishes were fishes, even beggars would eat — Lili St. Crow

When one person succeeds, we win as a group of people. Support others dreams so we can all win. — Bianca Frazier

Guilt is easy, innocence is hard. — Neal Shusterman

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into. — Gary Ross

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. — Miguel De Unamuno

for Isaac was neither afraid nor terrified, but of his own accord obeyed his father and God. For not terror but spontaneous obedience and fortitude should be attributed to the saints. For fear signifies that sin is ruling, and sin was not ruling in Isaac, but an obedient spirit. Although the flesh fought back, nevertheless the spirit, which subjected the flesh to itself, conquered and gained dominion. But — Martin Luther

He thirsted for this resurrection and renewal. The vile bog he had gotten stuck in of his own free will burdened him too much, and, like a great many men in such cases, he believed most of all in a change of place: if only it weren't for these people, if only it weren't for these circumstances, if only one could fly away from the curses place
then everything would be reborn! That was what he believed in and what he longed for. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way. — Milan Kundera

Although the making of a religion of one's own can be satisfying, it can progress further and faster with the aid of the spiritual traditions. Your own spiritual path risks being too personal and limited. What resources do you have compared to the traditions that have thought of things you will never consider? They have refined ideas and images and teachings and moral guidelines expressed in elegant and inspiring ways. They have produced spiritual beauty of a kind no single person could ever create. Read Emerson's journals and you find that he was reading Hafiz for months, and Thoreau's homespun spiritual insights come wrapped in references from the Western and Eastern traditions. — Thomas Moore

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress. — Willard Scott

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like. — Miuccia Prada