Kluwer Academic Plenum Quotes & Sayings

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. — Khalil Gibran

And though they may have many scruples that they are wasting time, and that it may be better for them to betake themselves to some other good work, seeing that in prayer and meditation they are become helpless; yet let them be patient with themselves, and remain quiet, for that which they are uneasy about is their own satisfaction and liberty of spirit. If they were now to exert their inferior faculties, they would simply hinder and ruin the good which, in that repose, God is working in the soul; for if a man while sitting for his portrait cannot be still, but moves about, the painter will never depict his face, and even the work already done will be spoiled. — San Juan De La Cruz

Do you know yourself?. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself. — William Blake

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. — Jacques Pepin

The Master said, 'Subsidiarity.' Tsze-Kung said, 'What the hell are you talking about? — Confucius

Because before you acquired language, you didn't exist. — Marcel Theroux

It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love. — Michael Franti

Zen is ... joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself. — Dave Brandon

We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm. — Witold Gombrowicz

Down to the 23rd page of double dutch! — Sharon M. Draper

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love. — Pearl Cleage

Every other religion gives you directions on how to find God, but Jesus takes you to Him. — Marva Dawn