Mensola Con Quotes & Sayings

That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another. — Gregory David Roberts

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? — Charles Sumner

One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately. — Anita Brookner

Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. — Paulo Coelho

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers. — Jill Briscoe

[ ... ] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer. — David Foster Wallace

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. — Andrea Thompson

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time. — Kristin Hannah

The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love. — Maggie Wheeler

It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth - penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images, — Joseph Campbell

What did you put in that coffee?" he asked with a frown.
Courtney laughed. "A little splash of happiness. — Latrivia S. Nelson

In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots. — EL Seed

Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel. — Edeet Ravel