Mehren Kaur Quotes & Sayings

Reason is always reasonable, even in the last limbo, in the lost borderland of all things. I know that people charge the Church with lowering reason, but it is really the other way. Alone on earth, the Church makes reason really supreme. Alone on earth, the Church affirms that God Himself is bound by reason. — G.K. Chesterton

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow. — Omar Khayyam

But that was the hypocrisy of adulthood: You never wanted the children you cared about to do things you'd done when you were heedless of the fragility of life. — Lisa Unger

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. — Daniel Defoe

Stephanie, huh?" I ask, when she doesn't respond. "You go by Steph?" "No. Not Steph." she says as we cross the street to the familiar green and white Starbucks logo. "My ex-boyfriend called me that so I'm kind of over it." God, someone actually dated this cranky little midget? Then my eyes skimmed the perky cleavage beneath the tiny tank top. Right. There was that. — Lauren Layne

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs. — Stephen Leacock

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence. — Nancy Sinatra

I call the Change of Life "Orchids" because menopause is such an ugly word. It's got men in it for goddsakes. — Lisa Jey Davis

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. — C.S. Lewis

I am very chaotic; I am always late and walking into things. — Lucy Punch

The simple things done consistently will produce the greatest results in your life. — Doug Addison

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. — Mark Strand

But Nakata wasn't afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness, that weighty silence and chaos, was an old friend, a part of him already. — Haruki Murakami

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. — Benjamin Cardozo

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess — Siegbert Tarrasch