Leituras Diarias Quotes & Sayings

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others. These harsh words pierced me to the core. — Shinichi Suzuki

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. — William Christopher Handy

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician.- G. A. Custer — Robert Asprin

It is from the unseen world that the phenomenal world emerges, and it is from the unseen realm of our hearts that all actions spring. The well-known civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. said that in order for people to condemn injustice, they must go through four stages. The first stage is that people must ascertain that indeed injustices are being perpetrated. In his case, it was injustices against African Americans in the United States. The second stage is to negotiate, that is, approach the oppressor and demand justice. If the oppressor refuses, King said that the third stage is self-purification, which starts with the question: "Are we ourselves wrongdoers? Are we ourselves oppressors?" The fourth stage, then, is to take action after true self-examination, after removing one's own wrongs before demanding justice from others. — Hamza Yusuf

He did not abandon you in the ultimate storm of your soul. He will not abandon you in the immediate storm of your now. — Ann Voskamp

Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world
unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical - I believe it. — Philip K. Dick

I'm like the annoying guy in the street. — Alec Soth

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner. — Heidi Klum

To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go. — Joshua L. Goldberg

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word. — Erykah Badu

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose. — Norman Wisdom

From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. — George Orwell

Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge. — Louise Penny

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. — George W. Bush