Inspexion Quotes & Sayings

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. — Victor Hugo

The seventeenth-century Benedictine mystic, Dom Augustine Baker, who fought a determined battle for the interior liberty of contemplative souls in an age ridden by autocratic directors, has the following to say on the subject: The director is not to teach his own way, nor indeed any determinate way of prayer, but to instruct his disciples how they may themselves find out the way proper for them. . . . In a word, he is only God's usher, and must lead souls in God's way, and not his own. — Thomas Merton

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill — Fausto Coppi

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost. — George Santayana

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it. — Stephanie Klein

However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family. — Roberta Bondi

I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan. — Trisha Yearwood

We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually. — Laurence Harvey

My lord. There is great importance to tea. It should never merely be 'whatever. — Brandon Sanderson

Function influence but does not dictate form — Eero Saarinen

I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far. — Markus Zusak

Its wrong to think that you need a heart to love — Jocelyn Davies

After him I learned, that sometimes, it takes two men to do, the work of one woman. — Key Ballah

We are right to note the license and disobedience of this member which thrusts itself forward too inopportunely when we do not want it to, and which so inopportunely lets us down when we most need it; it imperiously contests for authority with our will: it stubbornly and proudly refuses all our incitements, both of the mind and hand. MICHEL MONTAIGNE on the penis (his, presumably) — Anonymous