Monasteries Of The Heart Quotes & Sayings

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but ... it is right to lay this accusation to rest. — David Blunkett

The beauty that lies hidden, makes my soul tremble with awe. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

They have to want to get past their issues. They also have to be willing to share that load. If they don't, a woman can work and slave and she'll never get anywhere. — Kristen Ashley

He had long observed with disapprobation and contempt the superstition which governed Madrid's inhabitants. His good sense had pointed out to him the artifices of the monks, and the gross absurdity of their miracles, wonders, and suppositious relics. He blushed to see his countrymen, the dupes of deceptions, so ridiculous, and only wished for an opportunity to free them from their monkish fetters. That opportunity, so long desired in vain, was at length presented to him. He resolved not to let it slip, but to set before the people, in glaring colours, how enormous were the abuses but too frequently practised in monasteries, and how unjustly public esteem was bestowed indiscriminately upon all who wore a religious habit. He longed for the moment destined to unmask the hypocrites, and convince his countrymen, that a sanctified exterior does not always hide a virtuous heart. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact
with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too. — Leo Buscaglia

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite. — Milarepa

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish. — Liz Garbus

Maybe it was Roumiya's beauty that drove me away, her silent beauty, her eyes that seemed to be looking through everythig and draining it of all meaning. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Whilst it may be our species greatest achievement, responsible for every technological advance we have or ever will make, science is also poop and sex and boogers. — Katie McKissick