Laculia Quotes & Sayings

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. — Elissa Schappell

Meaning is everywhere. There is always meaning. Or at least all things show a disturbing tendency to have meaning ascribed to them when intelligent creatures are present. It's just that there's no final Meaning, with a capital M. Though the illusion that there might be is comforting for a certain class of mind. — Iain M. Banks

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand. — Gerald Stanley Lee

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony. — Samuel Logan Brengle

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say — Alessandro Baricco

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever. — Deepak Chopra

Christians take pride in proclaiming they are sheep, the most stupid of all mammals, incapable of defending themselves, living only to feed, multiply, and be fleeced periodically. — Ralph Perier

What have I told you about trying to sound ingratiatingly cute, Twyla?" she said. The little girl said, "You said I mustn't. You said that exaggerated lisping is a hanging offense and I only do it to get attention. — Terry Pratchett

As long as I can remember, I've been worried. Occasionally, this seemed like a strength. My obsession with avoiding risk helped me to dodge perils of all kinds. I rarely forgot my homework. My holidays were compulsively well-planned. — Neil Hughes

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses. — Francis Of Assisi

The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. This is the necessary first step along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying, humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves. — Thomas Merton

Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none so self-righteous as those who rewrote their past. — Sandra Dallas