Maertens Fine Quotes & Sayings

Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional. — Debasish Mridha

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. — Charles Caleb Colton

Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal. — Terry Brooks

I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there. — Marisha Pessl

Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time. — Deepak Chopra

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go — Malcolm X

That meadow scene is the first thing that comes back to me. The smell of grass, the faint chill of the wind, the line of the hills, the barking of a dog: these are the first things, and they come with absolute clarity. I feel as if I can reach out and trace them with a fingertip. And yet, as clear as the scene may be, no one is in it. — Haruki Murakami

Violence isn't really my thing. — Nick Nolte

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel ... — Sathya Sai Baba

You know how diamonds - how all crystals - grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. All the old stones accumulate stories. That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing — Anonymous