Kantonista Quotes & Sayings

Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others. — H. Norman Wright

NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until it removes its glasses. — Peter Sagal

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all. — Sergei Lavrov

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing. — Tony Robbins

A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and shake out your darkest feelings, without worrying that people would think you were strange. While I was writing, I would forget myself and everyone else; poetry made me feel part of something noble and beautiful and bigger than me. [ ... ] I slid them under the carpet as soon as they were done, all the images and rhymes wrestled into place. By the time I had copied them out, I found I had memorized every line. Then they would surprise me by surging through me, like songs I knew by heart. — Andrea Ashworth

The poor of the earth know how much we really love Jesus. — Adam LiVecchi

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. — Elayne Boosler

To be ignorant of the future is a condition of mortal existence, with which one can make terms. To be ignorant of the present, where it concerns the life of those one loves, is an additional burden almost beyond endurance. — Frances J. Woodward

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. ( ... ) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity. — Anthony Giddens

The true man trusts in a strength which is not his, and which he does not feel, does not even always desire. — George MacDonald