Margineanu Ma Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it. — Stephen Leacock

Embrace the beautiful mess that you are. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch. — David Gemmell

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first. — Phylicia Rashad

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood. — Luis Alberto Urrea

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher. — Rudolf Steiner

Most believe that the key to influence is communication - getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don't you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response? — Stephen R. Covey

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us. — Pope Francis

We will find our sacred-path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances. — Thomas Pynchon

Her mother had failed the fat test and now she wanted whole milk? What was next, crack cocaine and peanut M&Ms? — Katie Graykowski

On one occasion Barth invited a student to contribute an essay to the journal. The student was Max Lackmann, who was only twenty-four years old at the time. The essay, "Lord, Where Shall We Go?" appeared in the summer of 1934 and clearly drew a line between faithfulness to God's word and faithfulness to the Nazi state. — Dean G. Stroud