Felixs Quotes & Sayings

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way. — Terry Pratchett

Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong. — Karen Armstrong

There
is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the
well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the
world around you. — Susan Jeffers

I want to see all oppressed people throughout the world free. And the only way we can do this is by moving toward a revolutionary society where the needs and wishes of all people can be respected.' With these words the radical philosophy professor Angela Davis paraphrases Isaiah's ancient messianic dream of the lion that will peacefully lie down with the lamb in a completely good world. But what the Biblical prophet perhaps could not know is contained with a clarity that leaves nothing to be desired in the opening sentence of an address of the French Senate to Napoleon I: Sire, the desire for perfection is one of the worst maladies that can affect the human mind. — Paul Watzlawick

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. — Henry Taylor

When it happened I was terrified. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I was a cliche. I looked at myself in the mirror and in my eyes was a look I had never seen before: confusion, mystery and, yes, happiness. I had fallen in love. — Chloe Thurlow

Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life's challenges is actually our own fear of failure. — Daisaku Ikeda

A smile, that drove my heart to the knees — Syud, Hlovate & Noor Suraya

On a whim, Pisit calls the monk back to ask what he thinks of all this, and Western culture in general. After his drubbing just now he is in a Zen-ish sort of mood, not to say downright sarcastic: 'Actually, the West is Culture of Emergency: Twisters in Texas, earthquakes in California, windchill in Chicago, drought, flood, famine, epidemics, war on everything - watch out for that meteor and how much longer does the sun really have? Of course, if you didn't believe you could control everything, there wouldn't be an emergency, would there? — John Burdett

Wear me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave. — William Shakespeare