Goodtothinkabout Quotes & Sayings

Ah, hand holding mine, if I hadn't needed so much of myself to shape my life, I would already have had life! — Clarice Lispector

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world. — Sam Harris

Fat people are funny ... until obesity pays your loved one a visit. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

Dasein itself
and this means also its Being-in-the-world
gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself is not but which it encounters 'within' its world, and from the Being which they possess. — Martin Heidegger

A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God ordained your fruitfulness in your sphere of life — Sunday Adelaja

Ordinary society is, in this respect, very like the kind of music to be obtained from an orchestra composed of Russian horns. Each horn has only one note; and the music is produced by each note coming in just at the right moment. In the monotonous sound of a single horn, you have a precise illustration of the effect of most people's minds. How often there seems to be only one thought there! and no room for any other. It is easy to see why people are so bored; and also why they are sociable, why they like to go about in crowds - why mankind is so gregarious. It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable. Omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui: folly is truly its own burden. Put a great many men together, and you may get some result - some music from your horns! A — Arthur Schopenhauer

How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims. — Alan Gottlieb

Another tear falls, but this time it falls from my eye. I take a step back and I let go of her. — Colleen Hoover

I'm only trying to make you see beyond men's acts to their motives. A man can appear to be a part of something not-so-good on its face, but don't take it upon yourself to judge him unless you know his motives as well. A man can be boiling inside, but he knows a mild answer works better than showing his rage. A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them ... Have you ever considered that men, especially men, must conform to the demands of the community they live in simply so they can be of service to it? — Harper Lee

Hatch smiled again and glanced around the small, — Jayne Ann Krentz