Douyon Signature Quotes & Sayings

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically. — Walpola Rahula

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver

All men are. I declare, I think you to be the most incomprehensible creatures. — Stephen Crane

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends. — Dave Grohl

Yes, the day the world ended and nobody was innocent again. God, how swiftly it all fell down! — Arthur Miller

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. — W. H. Auden

True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past. — Philip Roth

A peasant with gold is still a peasant — Tom Doig

You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects — Vinod Rai

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question. — Eileen Claussen

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one, the other disappears. All the darkness in my life - the fears, neuroses, dysfunctions, and diseases - are not so much things as the absence of things. They represent not the presence of a problem but rather the absence of the answer. And the answer is love. All fearful manifestations disappear in the presence of love. — Marianne Williamson

Don't take your bad shots home with you. — Tony Lema