Misericordes Quotes & Sayings

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude. — Isabel Allende

The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe. — Philip Kapleau

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given. — Vin Scully

People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives. — Heidi Klum

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. — Ma Jian

But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakspeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at embodying them, has turned history upside down, or rather inside out. — Walter Scott

Money has never been an issue with me. I will make and continue to make plenty of money. — MC Hammer

Today is a gift from God. Don't waste it! — Ruth Kyser

Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do. — Linus Torvalds

Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight ... Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering. — Andrew Linzey

Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse. — May Agnes Fleming

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition. — Mary Karr

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page. — Janet Burroway

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields. — Jackson Browne

To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions. — Suzy Kassem