Metrotex Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. — Josef Pieper

Our cooking depends upon shadows and is inseparable from darkness — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents
they were so upset and reproachful ... I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't. — Philip Pullman

To realize the Enlightenment ideals of formal equality, the rule of law, freedom of commerce, and religious toleration, Voltaire and many of the other philosophes looked to absolutist monarchs, whose policies they hoped to influence. The support of the philosophes for the expansion of the monarch's sovereign power was tactical. It arose not out of a principled belief in the throne, but out of the recognition that only a strong monarchy had the power to override the resistance to enlightened legislation by the privileged churches, estates, and corporations that made up continental European society. (p. 45) — Jerry Z. Muller

Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories. — Robert Galbraith

Unconditional love is being connected to Source in spite on the conditions. — Esther Hicks

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. — John Milton

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance. — John Vianney

Early on, my family really made me love who I was and what I looked like. — Jennifer Lopez