Kabit Vs Original Quotes & Sayings

Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged. — San Juan De La Cruz

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge? — Tori Amos

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.' — Ira Glass

That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I have often thought about the matter since, but I have never succeeded in arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon.
Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world. The boat may possibly have come to the conclusion, judging from a cursory view of our behaviour, that we had come out for a morning's suicide, and had thereupon determined to disappoint us. That is the only suggestion I can offer. — Jerome K. Jerome

How, then, did it happen that this same France forty years later came to be crushed on the battlefield by a nation it outnumbered fivefold? Why should its noblemen be split up into factions, its bourgeoisie in revolt, its people overwhelmed by excessive taxation, its provinces lawless and plagued by roving gangs engaged in pillaging and crime, all authority flouted, the currency weakened, trade at a standstill, and poverty and violence rife everywhere? Why this collapse? What caused this reversal of fortune? It was mediocrity. The mediocrity of just a few kings, their vanity and self-importance, their frivolousness in the conduct of their affairs, their inability to attract talented advisors, their nonchalance, their presumptuousness, their failure to draw up grand designs or even to follow those already conceived. — Maurice Druon

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future
if mankind is to have a future — Ayn Rand

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business. — Dick Wolf

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated. — Robert McNamara

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing. — Lauren DeStefano

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. — Thomas Jefferson

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that. — Pharrell Williams