Faventes Quotes & Sayings

Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new. — Thomas Merton

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that. — Neal Schon

What redeems us as human beings and restores us to our humanity is solicitude for those whom we love. — Bruno Bettelheim

I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me. — Jill Bolte Taylor

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his. — Jane Swisshelm

The house had a private walk down to a private spit of beach, and in the mornings the four of them would troop downhill and swim - even he did, in his pants and undershirt and an old oxford shirt, which no one bothered him about - and then lie on the sand baking, the wet clothes ungluing themselves from his body as they dried. Sometimes Harold would come and watch them, or swim as well. In the afternoons, Malcolm and JB would pedal off through the dunes on bicycles, and he and Willem would follow on foot, picking up bits of shaley shells and the sad carapaces of long-nibbled-away hermit crabs as they went, Willem slowing his pace to match his own. In the evenings, when the air was soft, JB and Malcolm sketched and he and Willem read. He felt doped, on sun and food and salt and contentment, and at night he fell asleep quickly and early, and in the mornings he woke before the others so he could stand on the back porch alone looking over the sea. — Hanya Yanagihara

Without a doubt, the prospects (of China-US economic and trade relationship) are bright, — Patricia Russo

I'm not that crazy about how some of the men dress in Los Angeles. — Blake Shelton

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey — Charles R. Millhuff

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does. — Sam Harris

LIKE A GREAT WATERWHEEL, THE LITURGICAL YEAR goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. — Joan D. Chittister

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure — Lisa Ling

To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination . . . — Will Durant

Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day. — Seneca The Younger