Matrizes Invertiveis Quotes & Sayings

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage. — Niccolo Machiavelli

But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death. — Daniel Quinn

If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?'
If you sould ever see my face, you will lose me forever.'
Why?' Psyche wanted to know. 'Are you ugly? Are you afraid I won't love you if I see your face?'
Perhaps I am afraid that if you see my face, it will be THAT that you will love and not me.'
I understand, believe me. I know what that feels like. — Julius Lester

There is no prayer greater than service. — Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now. — Chogyam Trungpa

But Teia had a superpower that no one had counted on: she was completely paranoid. She had thought she was being followed a hundred times since she'd started working for the Order, so she'd figured out a thing or two. One, she was a paranoid mess. Two, she was pretty good at it. — Brent Weeks

I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next. — Lorde

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer. — Paul Tough

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today? — Fannie Lou Hamer

Braque was used to this kind of crap; her mom had been a master choreographer of anxious micromanagement since Braque could remember. — J. Ryan Stradal

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure. — Ronald Reagan

When your life is on course with it's purpose, you are your most powerful. — Oprah Winfrey