Dillistone Sober Quotes & Sayings

We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination. — Thomas Merton

Come to us and quackle and quank.
Relieve us of our stirrings
With your fangs so sharp and bright
Take this blood that's always purring.
Through our hollow bones it flows
To each feather and downy fluff.
Quell the terrible, horrid urge that so often prinkles us,
Still our dreams, make slow our thoughts
Let tranquillity flood our veins.
Come to us and drink your fill
So we might end our pains.
- The Owls at St. Aegolius calling to the bats — Kathryn Lasky

The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair. — Bertrand Russell

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about — Wayne W. Dyer

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. — Desmond Tutu

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that. — Danny Aiello

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels. — Jan Smuts

This gives us more time to attend the inner need. — Satish Kumar

When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely. — Sri Chinmoy

Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong. — Terry Pratchett