Lents Neighborhood Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is supposed to be interaction with God. — Sunday Adelaja

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have. — Irwin Shaw

Any victory is first won spirituality. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously. — Alistair Brownlee

We've both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one.
We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip, I'm biting my tongue. — Lorde

[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example ... ] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned. — Zelig Pliskin

Our goal should therefore be to become indifferent to other people's opinions of us. He adds that if we can succeed in doing this, we will improve the quality of our life. — William B. Irvine

When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies. — Eckhart Tolle

Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver — Emmanuel Olawale

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt. — Jacque Fresco

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about. — Keith Jarrett

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen. — Richard Linklater

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld