Gezinnen In Crisis Quotes & Sayings

I wonder if it will be - can be - any more beautiful than this,' murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom 'home' must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars. — L.M. Montgomery

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway. — Rick James

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time. — Sheldon B. Kopp

No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans. — Mischa Temaul

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world. — Pablo Casals

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.' — Watchman Nee

Whatever activity one sees in this world, it is discharge of previously charged karma. Man has nothing to do with it. He only does egoism here of, 'I did samayik (introspective meditation).' He creates a karmic account! He becomes entrapped! He takes enjoyment from tasting sweetness of subtle pride of doer-ship. — Dada Bhagwan

I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett. — Gordon Lightfoot

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. — Oscar Wilde

She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route ... — Margaret Mitchell

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. — Salman Rushdie

The beaches. In literally hundreds of instances, a vessel's ignorance of her longitude led swiftly to her destruction. Launched on a mix of bravery and greed, the sea captains of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries relied on "dead reckoning" to gauge their distance east or west of home port. The captain would throw a log overboard and observe how quickly the ship receded from this temporary guidepost. He noted the crude speedometer reading in his ship's logbook, along with the direction of travel, which he took from the stars or a compass, and the length of time on a particular course, counted with a sandglass or a pocket watch. Factoring in the effects of ocean currents, fickle winds, and errors in judgment, he then determined his longitude. He routinely missed his mark, of course - searching — Dava Sobel