Massanelli Gregg Quotes & Sayings

Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing. — Janette Oke

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money. — Karin Dreijer Andersson

Those who ignore or belittle karmic cause and result are followers of the nihilist heretics. Those who base their confidence only upon the view of emptiness will plunge lower and lower toward the extreme view of nihilism. Those who catapult into this negative direction will never find freedom from the lower states of existence and will be far removed from the higher realms. They say that doctrines emphasizing conventional meanings such as cause and result, compassion, and meritorious accumulations will not bring buddhahood, whereas the uncontrived definitive meaning that resembles the sky is what the great yogis must meditate upon. Among nihilistic views, that is the epitome; and among lower paths, that is the lowest of all. How amazing to claim that, by blocking the cause, a result can be accomplished. — Longchen Rabjam

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky. — Henry Adams

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination. — Adam Smith

In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze. — Richard E. Byrd

Grief is like a long journey
You wake each morning in a different place — David J. Delaney

Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing. — Stacy London

People rely too much on their lifelong instincts. Their perception is divided by necessary obedience, which they themselves have become too weak to liberate themselves from. I'd let the Devil read me the bible, before I trusted the Words of God or the Mind of Man. — Lionel Suggs

The ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches their return. — Lao-Tzu

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins. — Geena Davis

If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge. — Nicky Gumbel

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression. — Henry James

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be. — Jeremy Clarkson