Miolos De Porco Quotes & Sayings

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless. — Immanuel Kant

Hospitality is a prized virtue of monastic communities. Benedict's rule says: 'All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say, "I was a stranger and you welcomed me."' Brother Alphonsus served as a doorkeeper in the seventeenth century at a Jesuit college in Majorca, Spain. Each time someone knocked at the door he would reply, 'I am coming, Lord!' This practice reminded him to treat each person with as much respect as if it were Jesus himself at the door. — Ken Shigematsu

You both ... you both saved me?"
"Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour. — Holly Black

When you're connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all that stuff, then your self-esteem's going to go up. — Jack Canfield

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've got some repenting to do. — Tony Campolo

It's not a question of getting more moral soldiers. Instead it's a question of recognizing how the situation of war (and the cultural institutions/practices of the military that we have designed to "prepare" people for that situation) creates monsters out of us all. — Philip G. Zimbardo

The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by. — Tom Landry

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. — Gavin Bryars

There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family. — Jerry Oppenheimer

Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock. — Craig Stone

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans. — Silius Italicus

And likewise I was beginning to see my own fears and desires manifested outside myself, was beginning to see in other people's lives a commentary on my own. — Rachel Cusk

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead. — Romola Garai