Giraites Quotes & Sayings

Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination. — Abundance Of Katherines John Green

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. — Simone Weil

So a sense of humor is not merely a matter of trying to tell jokes or make puns, trying to be funny in a deliberate fashion. It involves seeing the basic irony of the juxtaposition of extremes, so that one is not caught taking them seriously, so that one does not seriously play their game of hope and fear. This is why the experience of the spiritual path is so significant, why the practice of meditation is the most insignificant experience of all. — Chogyam Trungpa

Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you provide careers - that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization. — James Sinegal

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness. — J.C. Ryle

Isn't it awful what we'll do in this world to feel wanted? — William Goldman