Gary Burrell Quotes & Sayings

Like all cities, Beirut has many layers, and I had been familiar with one or two. What I was introduced to that day with Ali and Kamal was the Beirut of its people. You take different groups, put them on top of each other, simmer for a thousand years, keep adding more and more strange tribes, simmer for another few thousand years, salt and pepper with religion, and what you get is a delightful mess of a stew that still tastes delectable and exotic, no matter how many times you partake of it. — Rabih Alameddine

Opinion is often compromised in the face of fear. — Gavin Mills

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind. — Eckhart Tolle

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. — Pat Buckley

If we never shift our perspective from the standpoint of life, no matter how much we want to think on death, it will only be an extension of our thinking on life — Shinmon Aoki

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. — Alfred Lord Tennyson