Keyboardist Manfred Quotes & Sayings

A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times. — Pope Benedict XVI

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force. — Charlie Munger

The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about. — Norman MacCaig

The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie. — Jacqueline Winspear

You get to the end of something, you're laughing, you're like, 'That's funny, and that's funny,' and then you get to the end, and the credits come down, and you're like, 'That's it?! That's the whole thing?! You had me here for that?!' I just don't want to do that. — Mike Birbiglia

If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him. — Miyamoto Musashi

I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude. — Victor Oladipo

I believed in the world.
Oh, I wanted

to be easy
in the peopled kingdoms,
to take my place there,
but there was none

that I could find
shaped like me. — Mary Oliver

Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds." — T. Harv Eker

No, the only good in life lay in not being - or, if one had to be, then in being a tree, a stone, or even less than that, the grain of sand that cannot bleed beneath the grinding heel of a passer-by. — Emile Zola

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept. — Margaret J. Wheatley

One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances. — Mahatma Gandhi

Be who you are and what you are; for if you think of what others think of you, you will become what others think of you. Rather, be what you want to be!-RVM — R.v.m.