Kottarakkara Places Quotes & Sayings

You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village.

-African Proverb — Nicholas D. Kristof

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man. — William Shakespeare

May you see drops like stars. — Rob Bell

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.' — Robert A. Heinlein

Form an image in your mind of what you want to happen, then do what it takes to make it happen. — Lana Krumwiede

Teaching by example, radical obedience, justice, mercy, activism, and sacrifice wholly inspires me. I'm at that place where "well done" trumps "well said." When I see kingdom work in the middle of brokenness, when mission transitions from the academic soil of the mind into the sacrificial work of someone's hands, I am utterly affected. Obedience inspires me. Servant leaders inspire me. Humility inspires me. Talking heads dissecting apologetics stopped inspiring me a few years ago. — Jen Hatmaker

The door closed behind them, and for a second nobody moved. Then Mr. Spanos made a grunting noise and plopped the aluminum suitcase into Deborah's lap. "Open it," he said. Deborah stared at him. "Go on, open it," he said. "It won't explode." She stared for just a second longer, and then she looked down at the suitcase. It had two locks holding it closed and she slowly undid them and then, with a last look at Spanos, she flipped the lid open. Deborah — Jeff Lindsay

She must have been a nurse. She looked a few years older than me. Pretty. Naturally pretty, the type that's still attractive, even more so, when she's filthy. — Ruta Sepetys

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else. — Mason Cooley

There are no insignificant relationships. Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies an energetic fragment of our own psyche and soul. Our individual spiritual task is to recognize and integrate all of them into our awareness so that the greater pattern of our mission can shine forth in its full dimensions. — Caroline Myss

But the game isn't like that, because life isn't like that. Gods don't come down in life to mete out justice. The powerful do it. That's what they are teaching us, not only the pain in gaining power, but the desperation that comes from not having it, the desperation that comes when you are not a Gold. — Pierce Brown

In an age when young people are encouraged to maximize self-interest and self-advancement, the grounds for altruism or even good behavior become obscured. Short of reverting to religious authority - itself on occasion corrosive of secular institutions - what can furnish a younger generation with a sense of purpose beyond its own short-term advantage? — Tony Judt

Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words. — Alexandre Dumas

Your future is always more valuable than today, the sooner you realise that the better — Steve Douglas