General Araki Quotes & Sayings

When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we're telling the story of who God is. — Shauna Niequist

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful. — Catullus

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society. — George Soros

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. — Rajneesh

Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized. — Firoozeh Dumas

A rat is more alive than a turtle.
A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin — Leonard Cohen

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? — Steve Jobs

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality. — Wilferd Peterson

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit. — John Wooden

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature. — Joseph Addison

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty. — Sharon Salzberg

It's my job to worry about you. I'm in love with you, Stacy. I have been ever since I can remember. It's always been you. — Barbra Annino

History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly. — Jean-Henri Fabre

We have a friend, and Anglophile American city-dweller in his eighties, whose main ambition, now, is to hear a cuckoo call, for he never has, and perhaps he never will, for he is rather deaf. But, if he came and sat under the magic apple tree for an afternoon in May, it would be quiet enough, and then he might listen to the cuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo until he had his fill. — Susan Hill