Istota Quotes & Sayings

Hope is my guideline, happiness is my purpose, and love is my life's strength and power. — Debasish Mridha

Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life. — Spencer Johnson

You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it. — Sonia Rykiel

Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder. — James Agee

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake. — Leon Panetta

There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved — Pope Pius XII

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create. — Michael O'Brien

I'm excited to just have somebody that I can protect. Someone I can make sure is superloved and never really experiences the turmoil that I went through with my family, to just have a really loving environment that grows intelligent and in love and breathes happiness and productivity. — Nick Carter

Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right. — Jonathan Haidt

Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours. — Wilkie Collins

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable. — Max Levchin

Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator so completely that the great themes of majesty and nobility and felicity are made to seem trite, puny, pedestrian. . . . I am concerned about the state of the soul in the midst of all the cheap sensory overload going on today. You see, without what Alfred North Whitehead called "an habitual vision of greatness," our soul will shrivel up and lose the capacity for beauty and mystery and transcendence. . . . — John Piper

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers. — Plato