Geronta Quotes & Sayings

This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else. — Scott Adams

One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste. — Rebecca West

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes. — Imelda Marcos

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. — William James

True love is born from hard times. — John Green

May the Lord lay His hand on all that I do so that it may be in accordance with His holy will; this is always my desire, although my actions may be as imperfect as I myself am. — Teresa Of Avila

Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When you plant a tree, he insisted, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing. — Kallistos Ware

And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise. — Joan Wickersham

Humans were not meant for isolation. WE were not meant for loneliness. — S. Jae-Jones

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon. — William Peter Hamilton

Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world. — Brook Benton