Matusiak Texas Quotes & Sayings

It is not my purpose here to document the destruction caused by war [...] The point is to ask ourselves why these accounts have not had greater effect. [...] Why is it that many of us are deeply moved by visual art, fiction, and firsthand accounts of destruction and yet accept war as a means of resolving conflict or defending ourselves? — Nel Noddings

People don't die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite. — Dan Groat

It is an intern's job to go for coffee for anyone who asks, preferably delivering it scalding hot and cupped in your bare hands! — Kurt Braunohler

I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex. — Jennifer Elisabeth

The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I'd ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you. — Jenny Han

I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't you will eat away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The fact is that they always go after your weakest point - the wolves chase down the weakest sheep in the herd. — Haruki Murakami

let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow Nature, all is easy and unobstructed; but if we combat Nature, our life differs not a whit from that of men who row against the current. — Seneca.

Thrilled to be part of this new project Generation Nature and just encouraging kids to change the world. — Bindi Irwin

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it. — Fausto Cercignani

Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty. — Dalai Lama

The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home
somewhere that is not a where. — Rumi

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J.G. Holland

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx