Humanitas Junior Quotes & Sayings

A mystic is one who has dropped all dreams, who has thrown away this mirror of the mind and who looks directly into life, without any medium interfering. Then he sees the eternal progression, then in a single moment he sees all eternity, and in a single atom he can see the whole reflected. — Osho

What you love, you pursue. What you pursue defines you. — Unknown

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem. — Judy Davis

I would have thought that a book that begins "Dear God" would immediately have been identified as a book about the desire to encounter, to hear from, the Ultimate Ancestor. Perhaps it is a sign of our times that this was infrequently the case. — Alice Walker

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part - there was no one to blame and no way to reverse — Miranda July

Several of the dusty Griever pods were opening, their top halves lifting upward on hinges like the lids of coffins. — James Dashner

A Court of equity knows its own province. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Pacifiers are also blamed for delayed language development, which seems logical, too - how's he going to talk with that thing in his mouth? - but there's no evidence for this either. There is evidence that the lack of evidence hasn't stopped people from making the claim: a British speech therapist even admits she was disappointed her study's data showed no link between pacifiers and speech problems. And teeth? Pacifiers only screw up the palate if used past the age of five, well after the vast majority of children have stopped. — Nicholas Day

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited. — Hjalmar Schacht