Lishinsky Quotes & Sayings

The feet of ghosts never touch the ground. — Jandy Nelson

Germany are a very difficult team to play ... they have eleven internationals out there today. — Steve Lomas

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics. — Henry David Thoreau

What we do not understand we have no right to judge — Henri Frederic Amiel

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God. — Mahatma Gandhi

If only I had objected harder, or ordered him or something. It could have been different. It should have been different. None of this was meant to happen this way ... — Steve Merrick

Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the slightest provocation we will put distance between ourselves and those we cannot or do not want to understand — Susan Nathan

Anger is the poorest of counselors, and revenge is suicide. — Elizabeth Blair Lee

For poetry and I are one
To separate is to decapitate
For my poetry is forever. — Kerry D. Brackett

In this high place it is as simple as this, Leave everything you know behind. Step toward the cold surface, say the old prayer of rough love and open both arms. Those who come with empty hands will stare into the lake astonished, there, in the cold light reflecting pure snow, the true shape of your own face. David Whyte, "Tilicho Lake" Conservatives — Richard Rohr

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object? — Max Perutz

It is just as valuable to be censured by friends as it is splendid to be praised by enemies. We desire praise from those who do not know us, but from friends we want the truth. — Rene Descartes

Nutrition and exercise are not even worth discussing until you have done the work found in Lit from Within. — Amy Allen

The way of Wisdom lies, therefore, in recognizing things which happen to you as your own karma - not as punishments for misdeeds or rewards for virtue (for there really is no "bad" or "good" karma), but as your own doing. For in this way you come to see that the real "you" includes both the controlled and the uncontrolled aspects of your experience. — Alan W. Watts

I could be joking and smiling [with infidels] and then cutting their throats in the next second. — Tarik Shah