Garchen Institute Quotes & Sayings

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting. — Jodi Picoult

Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were fascinating relics from an archaeological dig. I note that their shoulders are trembling, and I realize that they are fighting laughter over my terrible plight. There's friendship for you. — Libba Bray

Halle-fucking-lujah! — J.R. Ward

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. — Alan Watts

What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. — Pablo Picasso

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people. — Paul Washer

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust. — Demetri Martin

A very interesting paradox seen in individuals possessed by demons is that they are incredible bright when analyzing others beyond appearances, but incredible stupid when not noticing the obvious in front of their nose. — Robin Sacredfire

Oined the circle and prayed with these men [homeless] who seemed on the outside to have nothing to give but had been giving, without our knowing it, the most precious gift of all: compassion. — Ron Hall

Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction."

{Guy Gavriel Kay} — Guy Gavriel Kay

It is not physical solitude that actually separates one from others; not physical isolation, but spiritual isolation. It is not the desert island nor the stony wilderness that cuts you from the people you love. It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men. — Honore De Balzac

What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me in the one thing that we are all put on this earth to do: help one another - because it is the only thing that, in the long run, gives us pleasure, as receiving love and friendship and affection is the only thing that gives us joy and ameliorates the dread of our inevitable extinction. — Samuel R. Delany

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good. — Pope Benedict XVI