Franzoni Cogne Quotes & Sayings

Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step. — Gustavo Gutierrez

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time. — Martha Plimpton

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that? — Nhat Hanh

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value ... — Ananda Coomaraswamy

When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself to emotionally reenact the issue you're talking about or the experience that you're remembering. I mean that would kill you, you know. To experience a thing, a trauma, every single night, it would probably kill you emotionally. — Staceyann Chin

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed meeting fans face to face. They're less scary when they aren't going nuts at a Who show. But then, so am I. — Pete Townshend

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom. — Jaggi Vasudev