Module Object Quotes & Sayings

It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing. The simple fact of existing, of living in time, can comprise a religious dimension. This dimension is not always obvious, since sacrality is in a sense camouflaged in the immediate, in the "natural" and the everyday. The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing - even fugitively - in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant. — Mircea Eliade

If we do not act together, we will surely perish. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Love in the flesh remained elusive. It drew yet frightened him. This was the late eighties, after all, the most terrifying days of the plague. Surrounded everywhere by insolent youth and beauty, Paul looked and lusted but didn't dare touch. — Jonathan Galassi

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it. — Jonathan Carroll

The best lesson I learned was to just do it. It doesn't matter what it is, or how hard it might seem, as the ancient Greek, Plato, said, 'The beginning is the most important part of any work. — Richard Branson

Find a daily time to seek divine guidance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The beauty of the world ... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf

I only have eyes for you. — David Levithan

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. — Lord Byron

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West. — Jose Maria Aznar

That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other. — Thea Hillman