Hakuin Butter Quotes & Sayings

Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant past. — Lauren Oliver

Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees. — John Newton

F a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled. — Oliver Lodge

Sometimes we punish ourselves the most. — William Shakespeare

The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies. — Arnold Leese

What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature.
It has become a symbol now ... That is the way human beings deal with the world. — Lian Hearn

I would spend the rest of my life turning to speak to her. — Don DeLillo

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity. — Deepak Chopra

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless. — Ezra Taft Benson

His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask — Gayle Forman

I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so. — Agatha Christie

I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be. — Tom DeLonge