Fostis Quotes & Sayings

Just like everything else in life that seemed inexplicable, people always tried to find an explanation. — Tim O'Rourke

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week. — Robert Peel

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A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving. — Robert Bly

Only what you have not given can be lacking in any situation. — Marianne Williamson

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. — Matsuo Basho

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. — William Shakespeare

At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle. — Curtis Sittenfeld

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. — Grenville Kleiser

It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it. — Adyashanti

I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful as us. We have the future of our species in our hands. We could be the generation that people look back on and say, 'They bloody did it!', not 'They didn't bother.' — Franny Armstrong

It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. — Alfred North Whitehead