Mauriki Quotes & Sayings

Each of us can improve our internal person and develop the character required for a successful life — Sunday Adelaja

Inside each one of us there is a mostly hidden, mostly golden, mostly eternal image or aspect of being, similar to the gold that is buried in the earth. We are the earthlings, the children of the earth, and therefore we are a replica, in a sense, of the earth itself. One of the ideas that is important is: As above, so below. As outside, so within. — Michael Meade

Exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. — Aesop

The entailments of this metaphorical mode of thought are quite considerable: Moral standards that change with time, or social situation, or ethnicity are a danger to the functioning of society. There is no such thing as progress in morality; what is and is not moral is fixed for all time, and any change of standards in the name of would-be moral progress is really an evil, a chipping away at our moral foundations, a tearing of our moral fabric, and so on. — George Lakoff

Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction. — Moss Hart

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story. — Steve Toltz

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching. — George Eliot

Every author loves to read his own words. — Kirk Gollwitzer

Rationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work. — Steven Pressfield