Messeret Foundation Quotes & Sayings

No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard seat with a very sad expression on his face, listening to the drone of bluebottle squadrons carrying out a raid on the yellow cheese sandwich. — Flann O'Brien

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

One should pray to God not for the alleviation of suffering, but for peace of mind. Once you have peace of mind, your problems will vanish. You can even escape the consequences of your actions, if you have God's Grace. After the expiry date, a medicine loses its potency. Similarly, if you acquire God's Grace, the consequences of your actions will have no effect on you. In order to bring your consequences to expiry, prayer is essential. You have to pray wholeheartedly. — Publications Division

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year. — Kathleen Norris

In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone. — Julian Fellowes

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say. — Ram Dass

You didn't know how to live under my light? I don't have a light anymore unless you're there. — Kristen Callihan

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. — Greg Anderson

It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing. — George Herbert

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet. — Plautus

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil. — Baha'u'llah

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom. — Anais Nin

When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar. — Phillip Adams

Every person's worst fear-that no one will be able to love us in spite of our scars. — M. Leighton

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise. — Mark Twain