Fukami Sprites Quotes & Sayings

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay. — Kathleen Norris

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it. — Jerry Stahl

All she could do now was run . . . and figure out how to defeat an Excisioner who couldn't be killed. — Charlie N. Holmberg

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched. — Terry Pratchett

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah

People who are criticizing ... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it. — Gwyneth Paltrow

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept. — Trenton Lee Stewart

We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news. — Ray Bradbury

If you don't work on yourself, then much of your politics is merely projections. We have to walk our talk and do the inner work that allows the outer work to be authentic and also effective. — Matthew Fox

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. — John Dewey

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. — William Blake

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions — Louie Giglio

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals — Arthur Guiterman

Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself. — Robin Sharma