Gerlando Quotes & Sayings

Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed. — Abu Bakar Bashir

Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality ... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits. — Sri Aurobindo

I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. — Deepak Chopra

For if we do not know even how we manage to be conscious and intelligent, it is most rash to assume that we know what the role of conscious intelligence will be, and still more that it is competent to order the world. — Alan W. Watts

Spike desperately lifted a shield of energy just in time for the Servant to blow it apart with a single punch. — Crafty Nichole

Decide yourself who was right: you or the one who questioned you then? Recall the first question; its meaning, though not literally, was this: 'You want to go into the world, and you are going empty-handed, with some promise of freedom, which they in their simplicity and innate lawlessness cannot even comprehend, which they dread and fear - for nothing has ever been more insufferable for man and for human society than freedom! But do you see these stones in this bare, scorching desert? Turn them into bread and mankind will run after you like sheep, grateful and obedient, though eternally trembling lest you withdraw your hand and your loaves cease for them. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

It's not something you can prove ... I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't. — Charles De Lint

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia. — Marc Cherry