Genival Bento Quotes & Sayings

You have been to hell, Ketut?"
He smiled. Of course he's been there.
What's it like in hell?"
Same like in heaven," he said.
He saw my confusion and tried to explain. "Universe is a circle, Liss."
He said. "To up, to down
all same, at end."
I remembered an old Christian mystic notion: As above, so below.
I asked. "Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell?"
Because of how you go. Heaven, you go up, through seven happy places. Hell, you go down, through seven sad places. This is why it better for you to go up, Liss." He laughed.
Same-same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy in journey."
I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is.. "
Love, too," he said.
Ketut laughed again, "Always so difficult for young people to understand this! — Elizabeth Gilbert

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. — Steve Maraboli

God looks at the world through the eyes of love. If we, therefore, as human beings made in the image of God, also want to see reality rationally, that is, as it truly is, then we, too, must learn to look at what we see with love. — Roberta Bondi

I'm pretty much a cat that way. Scratch my stomach, and I'll purr at you, but I'll want to gut you with my claws even more than if you'd ignored me. — Tad Williams

But what of the little question of your secret, Lady Archer?"
"Will remain so if you're a pile of ash on my floor. — Kristen Callihan

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000. — Chris Rock

O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. — William Shakespeare

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles. — Juliette Binoche

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs. — Mario Bunge

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch. — Sam Trammell

California is a fine place to live, if you happen to be an orange. — Fred Allen

I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. — Nicholas Sparks

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. — Antonio Porchia

Often, I find, it is better to forget what you know, and to believe only what you can see with your own two eyes. — Sam Taylor