Jellison Quotes & Sayings

Ask yourself how many of the billions of inhabitants of this planet have any idea of how rare it is to have been born as a human being. How many of those who understand the rarity of human birth ever think of using that chance to practice the Dharma? How many of those who think of practice actually do? How many of those who start continue? ... But once you see the unique opportunity that human life can bring, you will definitely direct all your energy into reaping its true worth by putting the Dharma into practice. — Joseph Goldstein

We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us?
The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him. — Socrates

Are demons allergic to fashion? Am I supposed to blind them with sequins? — Sarah Alderson

The problem wasn't drinking. The problem was people. And what they needed wasn't a new law; what they needed was a new heart. — Siri Mitchell

A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy. — Pope Francis

Happy people don't fight for the sake of fighting.Happy people don't hurt each other.Sadness must be inside every human being.That made it lighter to bear the burden of a less than fulfilled life. — K.J. Kilton

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Everything costs and costs the earth. — Maya Angelou

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. — Junius

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. — Smedley Butler

Boys, at war, so far away, will naturally droop, both in body and mind, from lack of a particular girl's snuggling and cuddling. — Ernest Vincent Wright

When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger;
invisible hands draw back the curtains,
a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust
of the piano ... — Yiannis Ritsos

I had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry — Megan Boyle