Goldfinches Migration Quotes & Sayings

Men do not allow anyone to take possession of their estates, and, if there is the slightest dispute about the limit of their property, they rush to pick up stones and weapons: but they are allow others to make inroads into their life, even extending personal invitations to those who will one day possess it. — Seneca.

Frankly, I had enjoyed the war ... and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun? — Adrian Carton De Wiart

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. — George Pell

I'd let the dummy comment slide, partly because I felt like a dummy and partly because I couldn't think of an eloquent way to say asshole. — Michael Stark

My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in the past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner with me; consequently, in my own special world, of which I am the center, it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before. — Thomas Troward

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in. — Harvey Fierstein

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion. — Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes it's better to go against the crowd and feel alone,
than to agree and have a false sense of belonging — Steven Aitchison

Always keep an open mind, because an open mind is an open door, and an open door is the gateway to everything. — Trevor Forest

There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. — Ernst Junger

The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline
it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. — Joni Eareckson Tada

The claw, that's the beast that enters your flesh; the sucker, that's you yourself who enters into the beast. ( ... ) Beyond the terror of being eaten alive is the ineffability of being drunk alive. — Victor Hugo

The child endures all things. — Maria Montessori