Kurzester Quotes & Sayings

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same. — Don Herold

It made the kids at camp much more enthusiastic and cooperative when they had ego goals to fulfill, I'm sure, but ultimately that kind of motivation is destructive. Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Now we're paying the price. When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way. — Robert M. Pirsig

Traveling in India gives you a chance to observe a renaissance. — Marie Brenner

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow. — Mahatma Gandhi

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream. — Thomas Merton

I always feel like people in general are much weirder and insane than anybody really wants to admit. How dare somebody watch anything and go, 'That's not real!' Go on the subway. For five minutes. — Max Greenfield

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection. — Samuel Johnson

I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing. — Andy Kindler

There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike back because we assume that we must defend ourselves, defend our name, our honor, our career, and so on. In reality we strike back at ourselves ... What we consider as justifiable defense of our rights may in reality plunge us into a vicious cycle that can undermine our very spiritual foundation. By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience. this law also explains why saints, when hit, often would literally turn the other cheek. (Fr. Maximos) — Kyriacos C. Markides

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. — Virgil

I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world. — Henry David Thoreau

in the story no one smiles,no lesson is learned.
the narrator can not change any one's heart
the story is agate to another story,which opens onto a story after that.
i made it up but the story is true. — Laura Apol