Maupiti Pension Quotes & Sayings

The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal. — Margaret Ayer Barnes

Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange. — Maureen McCormick

With the hindsight of the worldly experience she had since acquired, it was clear to Maisie that Dame Constance had suffered fools, if not gladly, then with gracious ease. — Jacqueline Winspear

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. — Bill Gates

No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will always have those challenges. The other reason for adversity is to accomplish the Lord's own purposes in our life that we may receive the refinement that comes from testing. It is vitally important for each of us to identify from which of these two sources come our trials and challenges, for the corrective action is very different. — Richard G. Scott

I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it. — Alex Honnold

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils. — Bruce Springsteen

Through prayer, religion insists, things which cannot be realized in any other manner come about: energy which but for prayer would be bound is by prayer set free and operates in some part, be it objective or subjective, of the world of facts. — William James

The body is the temple; the jiva is God (Siva). If one worships him with the 'I am He' thought, one will gain release. — Ramana Maharshi

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place ... It is certainly part of my life of prayer. — Thomas Merton

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift. — Lauren DeStefano

Next time I want to do something nice, slap me. — Simone Elkeles

Many of us are speeding up and skipping over, missing the important as we scan for the urgent. The irony is that in our anxiety toward not missing out, we are losing the most meaningful moments of life. — Jeff Goins