Le Beaufortain Quotes & Sayings

Make your work your play and your play your work. — Phil Jackson

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word. — Bill Johnson

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. — Jane Austen

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.] — Giacomo Casanova

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale. — Trinny Woodall

By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book. — John Vaillant

I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other. — Warren Sapp

Anything is possible if you just believe. But if you want to start believing, start with yourself. — Dulara Perera

The new has no special claim on the true. — Eric Greitens

Sometimes love carries us into the abyss, taking with us
to make matters worse
the people we love. — Paulo Coelho

I realized early that despite her gregarious and inherently buoyant disposition, a certain sadness resided in my mother. Even I, her only child, whom she loved more than anything in the world, could do little to soothe the sorrow that has taken root with the separation from her parents, her two sisters and her brother. The contrast in the life my mother experienced before and after leaving Tibet was so extreme, it must have been impossible for her to make sense of her life and to escape the inexhaustible longing for the past. Caring for me on her own inside crowded rooms of tenement buildings in towns and cities, she must have felt she had dreamt her past or that she was dreaming her present existence. The places and residences we lived in were never quite home to her and led her to cling, more tenaciously, to the past. My mother had guarded her past sorrows from me because she knew me well enough to sense I would carry her grief as my own. — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius. — Edward Gibbon

We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods ... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms. — Terence McKenna