Gurkol Quotes & Sayings

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. — Lionel Blue

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. — Jay Saunders Redding

The faithful witness, like ... Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent ... He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet. — John Ralston Saul

Deadlines and daily dilemmas are stressful focus on solutions problems concerns don't sweat make best out of the moment. — Kishore Bansal

I guess, your Excellency, that I too should start off by kissing some god's arse. Wich god's arse, though? There are so many choices. See the Muslims have one god. The Christians have three gods. And we Hindus have 36.000.000 gods. Making a grand total of 36.000.004 divine arses for me to choose from — Aravind Adiga

I believe that when all si said and done, all you can do is to show up for someone in crisis, which seems so inadequate. But then when you do, it can radically change everything. Your there-ness, your stepping into a scared [person's] line of vision, can be life giving, because often everyone else is in hiding ... — Anne Lamott

Helping someone because you feel sorry for them is one thing, but doing it because you like them and care about what happens to them is better. That means you aren't doing it for yourself. — Katherine Allred

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression. — Brandi Carlile

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. — Jonathan Miller

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. — Thich Nhat Hanh

What kinda vows? Celibacy? I thought, though I didn't say it. Nobody keeps a celibacy vow anyway. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I'm often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw. As warmth and feeling returns, my emotions continue to build until my personality is set on fire. When he leaves, the fire dwindles until there is but a flicker. Then there is stillness and winter returns. — Donna Lynn Hope

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error ... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. — Ken Wilber

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows ... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored. — Pam Gems