Lienhart Fryermut Quotes & Sayings

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself. — Lisa Wingate

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art. — Megan Frazer Blakemore

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don't use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
And, above all, poetry is compacted metaphor or simile. Such metaphors, like Japanese paper flowers, may expand outward into gigantic shapes. Ideas lie everywhere through the poetry books, yet how rarely have I heard short story teachers recommending them for browsing.
What poetry? Any poetry that makes your hair stand up along your arms. Don't force yourself too hard. Take it easy. Over the years you may catch up to, move even with, and pass T. S. Eliot on your way to other pastures. You say you don't understand Dylan Thomas? Yes, but your ganglion does, and your secret wits, and all your unborn children. Read him, as you can read a horse with your eyes, set free and charging over an endless green meadow on a windy day. — Ray Bradbury

In the eyes of many people, I may never live an extraordinary life. But I will love in extraordinary ways. And I hope I choose to always see the best in people — Natalie Lloyd

Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world
the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion? — Honore De Balzac

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? — Carl Sagan

If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire. — Michael Sims

I generally circuit train and do Pilates. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink. — Epictetus

we have all the evidence we need in our immediate experience and that only a deliberate refusal to "look" is responsible for atheism of any variety. — Antony Flew

Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die. — John Piper

He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning. — Louise Penny

Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing. — Sinclair Lewis