Lilianas Standard Quotes & Sayings

Real peace is as creative and as pure as war is destructive; and to find that peace, one must understand beauty. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You are being suffocated by tradition ... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art
it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants. — Kurt Vonnegut

Greater things are believed of those who are absent. — Tacitus

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. — Virginia Woolf

They chanted the psalms and praises, and as always the rhythm fastened itself to his heartbeat. It seemed unfair that the prayers could affect him this way, against his will; that he could scoff at the sentiments, yet find himself mouthing along. He imagined himself at ninety, toothless and doddering, unable to remember anything except for the morning prayers. They were his deepest memories, his first music. — Helene Wecker

For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness. — Michael Landon Jr.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages. — Robert Mankoff

Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules. — Al Sharpton