Gerolamo Costa Quotes & Sayings

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought. — Dorothy Richardson

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less. — Charles Kennedy

The natural object is always the adequate symbol. — Ezra Pound

I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head - I was psyching myself out. — Michelle Kwan

But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and called happiness because there was no other word. — Tim O'Brien

"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master. — Anthony De Mello

Look, Father, I don't think you're being straight with me. I want to join your Church and I'm going to join your Church, but you're holding too much back. I've had a long talk with a Catholic-a very pious, well-educated one, and I've learned a thing or two. For instance, that you have to sleep with your feet pointing East because that's the direction of heaven, and if you die in the night you can walk there. Now I'll sleep with my feet pointing any way that suits Julia, but d'you expect a grown man to believe about walking to heaven? And what about the Pope who made one of his horses a Cardinal? And what about the box you keep in the church porch, and if you put in a pound note with someone's name on it, they get sent to hell. I don't say there mayn't be a good reason for all this, but you ought to tell me about it and not let me find out for myself. — Evelyn Waugh

A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath. — Anthony Liccione

Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing. — Martina Navratilova

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic. — Joanna Lumley

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done — George Bernard Shaw

I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine. — Roger Ebert