Messessentialism Quotes & Sayings

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today. — Richard Rohr

What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you should do for the things you desire? — Tony Curl

I'm very much a glass-half-full person. — Brian O'Driscoll

This book proves that a godly attitude lies at the heart of Christian leadership. It does not borrow principles of leadership from the world and apply them to the church, but rather derives principles of leadership directly from the Scriptures. — J. Oswald Sanders

We need to start a new philisophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. — Jandy Nelson

Maybellene, why can't you be true? — Chuck Berry

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it. — Jandy Nelson

Malcolm looked like the perfect battlefield commander, except for the fact that he'd forgotten his pants. His red briefs made quite a statement with his sword and leather cuirass. — Rick Riordan

I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost. — Elizabeth Madox Roberts

War, to be abolished, must be understood. To be understood, it must be studied." Karl Deutsch - preface of A Study of War by Quincy Wright. Added corollary by KMV: To abolish what is not understood is both arrogant and ignorant. — Karl Deutsch

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures. — David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

Only those who are bereaved of all joy in this present world may take refuge in the shadows of the past. — Julian May

Bonhoeffer knew that when the church stops talking about Jesus, it has nothing to say. And when it assumes dominance, it's not talking about Jesus. — Samuel Wells

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets. — George Harrison

When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for. — Claudio Arrau

I've got to wear sunglasses everywhere, all the time, even if its indoors or at night time, to be recognized. That's part of my job. I cannot take off my sunglasses. For me, staying in the United States was so dark because I can't take them off. — Psy

If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life. — Debasish Mridha