Edilberto Tiempo Quotes & Sayings

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. — Mark Akenside

Getting rid of the concept of self is the work of all meditators, because suffering is born from this concept. — Thich Nhat Hanh

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God. — Aristotle.

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things. — Edilberto K. Tiempo

You're told that you're supposed to go to college, but you're also told that you are being self-indulgent if you actually want to get an education. As opposed to what? Going into consulting isn't self-indulgent? Going into finance isn't self-indulgent? Going into law, like most of the people who do, in order to make yourself rich, isn't self-indulgent? It's not okay to study history, because what good does that really do anyone, but it is okay to work for a hedge fund. It's selfish to pursue your passion, unless it's also going to make you a lot of money, in which case it isn't selfish at all. — William Deresiewicz

What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important. — Christina Ricci

After all, there are beautiful things that don't last. But memory of them does. — Edilberto K. Tiempo

We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself. — Jerry Falwell

I can get so caught up in talking about writing with Bronte that I don't get any actual writing done. — Stephanie Morrill

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live? — Jackie Chan

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with
another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change
you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you
are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or
frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about
something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it
is about you that is making you unhappy. — Wayne W. Dyer

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal — Fred Alan Wolf

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit. His language, so familiar and so foreign, will always be for me an acquired speech. I have not made or accepted its words. My voice holds them at bay. My soul frets in the shadow of his language. — James Joyce

Keep trying again — Sasha Maurtitus

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time. — Rick Warren