Gosta Quotes & Sayings

And you trust yourself to divine that, from the words I use - to divine whether it comes from my heart? — J.M. Coetzee

Use what you have got to create your world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A wish for a future no longer tainted by the past. A future that held joy, not regret. A future that offered love instead of loneliness. — Irene Hannon

The mystery that remains in the sunset is the riddle of why and how a mixture of seemingly inert, unthinking atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and several other varieties can produce humans capable of having the subjective experience we refer to as beauty, or the love that would have us kiss our kids good night. Science is no closer to answering those questions today than it was a century ago. — Gerald Schroeder

Did she help people?" Miss Level added.
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"She made them help one another, she said. "She made them help themselves."
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Miss Level sighed. "Not many of us are that good," she said. — Terry Pratchett

Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad — Jesse Eisenberg

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology. — Jon Stewart

What Gosta,' he said to himself, 'can you no longer endure? You have been hardened in poverty all of your life; you have heard every tree in the forest, every tuft in the meadows preach to you of sacrifice and patience. You, brought up in a country where the winter is severe, and the summer joy is very short, have you forgotten the art of bearing your trials?
'Oh Gosta, a man must bear all that life gives him with a courageous heart and a smile on his lips, else he is no man. Sorrow as much as you will. If you love your beloved, let your conscience burn and chafe within you, but show yourself a man and a Varmlander. Let your glances beam with joy, and meet your friends with a gay word on your lips! Life and nature are hard. They bring forth courage and joy as a counterweight against their own hardness, or no one could endure them ... — Selma Lagerlof

Only the people who are rooted in the house of God will thrive, prosper, become rich and still have joy in every situation — Sunday Adelaja

Don't aim for the middle of the body, which is easier to defend; aim high for the head or low for the knees. — Lee Child

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. — Leonard Cohen

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. — Gosta Mittag-Leffler

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children. — Melinda Gates