John Van Ruysbroeck Quotes & Sayings

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it. — Max Lerner

White
There was a moment in the darkness when the fear lifted.
A moment where white surrounded me.
Hope.
Lily, and someone else, and a sprinkling of water.
"Holy water, Jenna."
"You can let go if you need to."
"Forgiveness, Jenna."
But I couldn't let go.
It wasn't in my power.
I was already swirling, flying, falling.
To someplace deep I didn't understand.
Where all the sounds buy my own voice disappeared.
Only me.
For so long.
I don't want to be alone anymore. (120) — Mary E. Pearson

The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it. — Michael Singer

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. — Octavia Butler

But a sniper rifle was a matter of pure mechanics. Brace it, breathe properly, squeeze rather than pull the trigger, and it was just a projection of will across distance. — Marcus Sakey

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. — Octavia E. Butler

If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity. — Jules Verne

Satan is so deceptive! He likes to borrow Christian vocabulary, but he does not use the Christian dictionary! — Warren W. Wiersbe

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. — Mortimer J. Adler

One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life. — Dakota Fanning

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existance is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, witch is free. — Rose Tremain

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. — Emma Goldman