Gheorghiu Alagna Quotes & Sayings

When you give without expectations, you feel that joy is rushing through you like the spring breeze caressing a newly blooming flower. — Debasish Mridha

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Shit, you're superlate!"
Reese shrugged as she took in her beautifully made up sister. "Sorry, I couldn't get my hair to look right."
Piper scrunched up her face. "Did you even try" Jesus, you look like roadkill. — Toni Aleo

A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well. — John Eidsmoe

There is not enough tea in the world to calm me. — Elizabeth May

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. — Phillips Brooks

But they're always a-bringing up some new law or other. — Charles Dickens

Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way. — Devdutt Pattanaik

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. — Edmund Burke

Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of ... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor. — Harry Hopkins

Is driving a right? You are entitled to a driving license if you can abide by the traffic laws and drive responsibly. If your driving endangers the lives of others, that license will be taken away from you. So rights and responsibilities are inseparable. If you can't respect the rights of others, if by your belief and conduct you endanger the lives of other people, you are not entitled to any right. — Ali Sina

Madame was in her room upstairs. She wore an open dressing gown that showed between the shawl facings of her bodice a pleated chamisette with three gold buttons. Her belt was a corded girdle with great tassels, and her small garnet coloured slippers had a large knot of ribbon that fell over her instep. She had bought herself a blotting book, writing case, pen-holder, and envelopes, although she had no one to write to; she dusted her what-not, looked at herself in the glass, picked up a book, and then, dreaming between the lines, let it drop on her knees. She longed to travel or to go back to her convent. She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris. — Gustave Flaubert

When you find a safe place to unravel, when you feel the arms of eternity wrapping tight around you - you stay. You don't run and hide, or turn and fight. You stay there. — Elizabeth Maxon