Kloster Quotes & Sayings

Learn all you can and listen to what your heart tells you. It knows where you need to be. — K. Weikel

Think goal setting is too laborious and time wasting? Try the goalless life and your regret will be unpardonably regrettable — John Kennedy Akotia

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations. — Richard Goldschmidt

There's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself Whether I in any just term — William Shakespeare

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

And Pierre's soul was dimly but joyfully filled not by the story itself but by its mysterious significance: by the rapturous joy that lit up Karataev's face as he told it, and the mystic significance of that joy. — Leo Tolstoy

I loved that woman in that desperate, all-consuming, she-could-break-me-with-one-word, way. — Nicole Williams

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life. — Plato

You have to sacrifice something , in order to gain peace . — Me

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him. — Henry B. Eyring

Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it! — Sean Hannity

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie. — Robert Osborne