Elementis Regamus Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes in Dohnavur we, who dearly love the little children about us (and the older ones too), have looked up from some engrossing work to see a child beside us, waiting quietly. And when, with a welcoming hand held out, to the Tamil "I have come," we have asked "For what?" thinking, perhaps, of something to be confessed, or wanted, the answer has come back, "Just to love you." So do we come, Lord Jesus; we have no service to offer now; we do not come to ask for anything not even for guidance. We come just to love Thee. — Amy Carmichael

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward. — Malala Yousafzai

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. — Henry Jenkins

I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home. — Amy Carlson

I need you to let me do all of those things, Ava. I need you to let me look after you forever. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything. — Mark Steyn

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. — Zoltan Kodaly

In fact, like other personality traits, personal happiness appears to be strongly influenced by our genes. Studies of identical and fraternal twins show that identical twins are significantly more likely to exhibit the same level of happiness than are fraternal twins or other siblings. Behavior geneticists have used these studies to estimate just how much genes matter, and their best guess is that long-term happiness depends 50 percent on a person's genetic set point, 10 percent on their circumstances (e.g., where they live, how rich they are, how healthy they are), and 40 percent on what they choose to think and do.31 — Nicholas A. Christakis

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. — Henry Vaughan

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it. — Drew Barrymore