Lando Griffin Quotes & Sayings

The night was cold, and very quiet, as though we were the only two souls in the world. — Diana Gabaldon

WEAN YOURSELF
Little by little, wean yourself.
This is the gist of what I have to say.
From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood,
move to an infant drinking milk,
to a child on solid food,
to a searcher after wisdom,
to a hunter of more invisible game.
Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo.
You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate.
There are wheatfields and mountain passes,
and orchards in bloom.
At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight
the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding."
You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up
in the dark with eyes closed.
Listen to the answer.
There is no "other world."
I only know what I've experienced.
You must be hallucinating. — Rumi

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes. — Michael Lehmann

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. — John Quincy Adams

When is one considered to be in the awareness of 'one's own Self'? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens). — Dada Bhagwan

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically. — Anthony Mary Claret

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them. — D.H. Lawrence

The Lord has given me to understand the value of at once confessing one's sins after their commission. By so doing we are always in the state of grace. — Peter Julian Eymard

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ — Pope Francis