Lebbroso Maschera Quotes & Sayings

I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions. — Bat For Lashes

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things. — Phil Robertson

If none of God's saints were troubled and tried - we would not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That was what it meant, didn't it. Being good. You didn't have to sink wells in Burkina Faso. You didn't have to give away your coffee table. You just had to see things from other people's point of view. Remember they were human. — Mark Haddon

I love when it's me you look at with that laughter in your eyes. It's reassuring, as if in letting me know my heart also had colors that you enjoy seeing. It makes me sparkle inside; I adore the times we sparkle together ... to me nothing is better than those. — Stefanie Schneider

If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration. — Debasish Mridha

Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed. — Jo Baker

Love is the only flame that set the soul on fire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age. — Joan Didion

Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

This ritual was straight out of the 1965 movie Shenandoah: "We thank you, Lord, for this food. We cleared the land. We tended the herd and planted the corn, cared for it, and harvested it. Then my wife prepared the meal, and we thank you for the opportunity — David Soucie