Jonville Small Quotes & Sayings

not even one's own pain weigh so heavy as the pain one feels with someone , for someone — Milan Kundera

Sometimes my grandfather was awake, and would sit with me while I looked up at the stars, needing to see something fixed and permanent while everything else in my life was falling apart. — Morgan Matson

Jesus today has many lovers of his heavenly kingdom, but few of them carry His cross. He has many friends who ask for consolation, but few who pray for affliction. He has many companions to share His meals, but few to share His abstinence.
We all want to rejoice with Him, but few of us are willing to suffer anything for His sake. Many follow Jesus up to the breaking of the bread, but few go on to the drinking of the chalice of His passion. Many admire His miracles but few follow in the ignominy of His cross. — Thomas A Kempis

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. — Elliott Abrams

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life. — Nuno Bettencourt

there was real pain in the world, right this very moment people were suffering unimaginable atrocities and you couldn't close your heart completely, but you couldn't leave it wide open either, because otherwise how could you possibly live your life, when through pure, random luck you got to live in paradise? You — Liane Moriarty

Be thou of Zen. Remember, in tranquillity, that the Absolute, the Tao, is within thee, that no priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain. — James Clavell

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. — Hunter S. Thompson

Always try to avoid being limited by means of communication. — Keith Grafman

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. — Paul Muldoon