Jvalentin Quotes & Sayings

Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage arises out of intimacy it is beautiful but if you are hoping that intimacy will arise out of marriage, you are hoping in vain. Of course, I know that many people, millions of people, have settled for marriage rather than for intimacy - because intimacy is growth and it is painful. — Rajneesh

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. — Maurice Ravel

Cruz made the sign of the cross over them. He hefted his rifle onto his shoulder and walked away. His warriors followed, blessed by the Lord, reconciled, holy in this day He had made, and ready to shoot. — Luis Alberto Urrea

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited. — Aaron Sorkin

Rejection of truth is the real core of our crisis. — Pope Benedict XVI

One of the greatest challenges of the spiritual life is to receive God's forgiveness. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. — Benjamin Disraeli

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Chinese people have stood up. — Mao Zedong

But he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest, disillusioned in the matter of art, she might at the same time be disillusioned in the greater matter of love. — Marcel Proust

A desired qualification must be preceded by the endeavor to prove that it is deserved — Shubha Vilas