Meraklan Quotes & Sayings

If you truly expect something to be difficult, it will be. — Peter A. Cohen

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all ... and pile on the years. — Natsuki Takaya

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman

Two Extremes Scripture and experience warn us that here we have to steer our course between two opposite extremes of disaster. On the one hand, there is the legalistic hypocrisy of Pharisaism (God-serving outward actions proceeding from self-serving inward motives), and on the other hand there is the antinomian idiocy that rattles on about love and liberty, forgetting that the God-given law remains the standard of the God-honoring life. Both Pharisaism and antinomianism are ruinous. — J.I. Packer

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course ... The whole secret of the thing, they insisted, was simply and at all costs to move steadily ahead, and that, they said, could not be taught. — Russell Hoban

People only buy when they're ready to buy. Not when you're ready to sell — Drayton Bird

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid — Robert Liparulo

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing. — Jake Epstein

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. — Joseph Joubert

Emigration tears people apart. They learn about high points and personal disasters in letters and phone calls. Closer contact is impossible. As if they have landed on another planet, breathing is difficult in the spacesuits they don't dare to take off for fear there won't be enough air in the new atmosphere. Their chests rise and fall with difficulty. Their lungs hurt. The voices of the other settlers croak through the microphones in their helmets. — Julya Rabinowich