Madam Burcu Quotes & Sayings

Further, the constitution of our consciousness is the ever present and lasting element in all we do or suffer; our individuality is persistently at work, more or less, at every moment of our life: all other influences are temporal, incidental, fleeting, and subject to every kind of chance and change. This is why Aristotle says: It is not wealth but character that lasts.
And just for the same reason we can more easily bear a misfortune which comes to us entirely from without, than one which we have drawn upon ourselves; for fortune may always change, but not character. Therefore, subjective blessings - a noble nature, a capable head, a joyful temperament, bright spirits, a well-constituted, perfectly sound physique, in a word, mens sana in corpore sano, are the first and most important elements in happiness; so that we should be more intent on promoting and preserving such qualities than on the possession of external wealth and external honor. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity', but it would be kind of funny. — Amy Jo Johnson

These are the only moments that we have left. These precious seconds where the passion blots out everything else, and it is just us.
The rest is a war neither of us can ever win.
But, I already waved my white flag.
I have already surrendered. — Amanda Grace

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over. — Mao Zedong

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. — Sheng Yen

Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. — Paul The Apostle

You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do. — Marty Rubin

I understand I can't have you. But I want to know you're in the world with me. — Jennifer Echols

Poignancy (a close cousin of regret) is a counterfactual feeling, which — Daniel Kahneman

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been. — Richard Matheson

A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know. — Garth Risk Hallberg

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality. — Confucius

Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time. — Dov Davidoff

Words are reflections. What we speak comes back to us. I prefer being told the truth, so I tell the truth. Within reason. — Marjorie M. Liu

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion ... let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty — Friedrich Nietzsche