Milist Quotes & Sayings

It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would not have discovered my enormous capacity to endure. I would have not have embraced this deeply contemplative place within my own being. — Katina Makris

The Stoics believed in social reform, but they also believed in personal transformation. More precisely, they thought the first step in transforming a society into one in which people live a good life is to teach people how to make their happiness depend as little as possible on their external circumstances. The second step in transforming a society is to change people's external circumstances. The Stoics would add that if we fail to transform ourselves, then no matter how much we transform the society in which we live, we are unlikely to have a good life. — William B. Irvine

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. — William Shakespeare

Moralistic, therapeutic deism is fine with sin hiding in a foxhole. The gospel wants to nuke the hole. — Matt Chandler

No human being should wear tight satin. — Michael Kors