Maroggia Map Quotes & Sayings

Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter ... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling. — Steven Whitney

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking ... the most audacious adventure that one can dare. — Alexis Carrel

With our minutes and days and decades, we build houses and savings accounts and busy calendars full of activity. And in some deeper way, we build our reputations and friendships and invest in our kids and careers. We are looking for this life to matter. No, we are actually looking for ourselves to matter. So we keep so busy, so distracted, so in love with everything but our invisible, patient, jealous God. Christ said, "So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). This covers literally everything. In essence, "Stop eating the flowers! Wake up — Jennie Allen

Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings:
How should a judge go about finding the law? The only legitimate way, in my opinion, is by attempting to discern what those who made the law intended ...
As I wrote in an opinion for our court, the judge's responsibility is to discern how the framers' values, defined in the context of the world they knew, apply in the world we know.
If a judge abandons intentions as his guide, there is no law available to him, and he begins to legislate a social agenda for the American people. That goes well beyond his powers.. — Joe Biden

The less you talk out loud, the more you talk in your head. — Quil Carter

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse. — David Levithan

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism — Carl Rogers

But when you find your soul, you have to go. When you find your true shape, when the wind lifts you up, when you remember who you are, you have to go. — Katherine Catmull

Nathan laughed, aiming the gun back at my face. Come on, say mercy and I'll let you up. — C.L.Stone