Gyoseishoshi Quotes & Sayings

The world always thinks that the destruction of a physical vessel is victory," he said quietly. "But the Savior was more than merely cells and tissue and chemical compounds - and Fidelacchius is more than wood and steel. — Jim Butcher

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth. — Benjamin Franklin

An interesting way to practice dying is by opening to illness. Each time you get a cold or the flu use it as an opportunity to soften around the unpleasant and investigate how resistance turns pain into suffering, the unpleasant into the unbearable. Notice how discomfort attracts grief. Watch the shadows gather in the aching body. Hear them mutter in complaint and self-pity. — Stephen Levine

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. — Harry Browne

Half of wisdom is love and friendship with people.(the other half is to guard yourself against the evils of people) — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil. — Smith Wigglesworth

The woman's managed what hasn't been done in thirty-one years. She's broke my god dawn nose — Nora Roberts

On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins. — Jon Landau

I remember everything about you. Even the stuff I wish I could forget ... — A Meredith Walters

A potential revolutionary situation exists in any country where the government consistently fails in its obligation to ensure at least a minimally decent standard of life for the great majority of its citizens. — Mao Zedong

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us. — Louis D. Brandeis

Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance? — Shane Claiborne

The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time. — Nick Saban