Friend Lang Pala Quotes & Sayings

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. — John Donne

How was it then that I could see a monster in him as easily as I could see his dignity, his integrity, and his charm? I had learned over the years that he held everything in for as long as he could. When he reached his limit, unrelated incidents could unleash that pent-up anger to an unprecedented degree. — Kyrian Lyndon

Next thing she knows she's lying flat on her back and three grizzled Mexicans are standing over her, trying — Ben Fountain

Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation ... when leaving the body 'uncontrolled' is spoken of, what is meant is simply allowing the body to remain in an authentic, uncorrected condition, in which it is not necessary to modify or improve anything. This is because, since all our attempts at correcting the body come from the reasoning mind, they are all false and artificial. — Namkhai Norbu

I think it's for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation; I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn't mean that we don't continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified. But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ. — Alan Chambers

That's what I try to do - write sentences that won't be like sand castles. — William Maxwell

Surely it is an excellent plan, when you are seated before delicacies and choice foods, to impress upon your imagination that this is the dead body of a fish, that the dead body of a bird or a pig; and again, that the Falernian wine is grape juice and that robe of purple a lamb's fleece dipped in a shellfish's blood; and in matters of sex intercourse, that it is the attrition of an entrail and a convulsive expulsion of a mere mucus. Surely these are excellent imaginations, going to the heart of actual facts and penetrating them so as to see the kind of things they really are. You should adopt this practice all through your life, and where things make an impression which is very plausible, uncover their nakedness, see into their cheapness, strip off the profession on which they vaunt themselves. For pride is an arch-seducer of reason, and just when you fancy you are most certainly busy in good works, then you are mostly certainly guilty of imposture. — Marcus Aurelius

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,
that of being judged by their peers. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing. — Bob Buford

Your face is the face of all the others
before you and after you — Ingrid Jonker

by indignities men come to dignities — Francis Bacon

I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that. — Jonas Armstrong

Make a donation or a charity or volunteer your time this month to help others less fortunate than yourself. — Demi Lovato