Monastically Simple Quotes & Sayings

What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny. — Robin Sharma

I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check. — James Howe

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. — Mother Teresa

We talk about our friends behind their backs. We do. Ask any social scientist who has studies human communication behaviors. Even you edmitted to doing this. Our friends are witnese to our attributes and flaws, our bad habits and good qualities, our contradictions and our contrivances. That they need to occasionally discuss the negative aspects or our lives and personalities in terms less than admiring is to be expected. — Cheryl Strayed

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals? — Mother Teresa

resurrection insists that the darkness is actually surrounded by light - and the light is growing. — Jeff Cook

Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world - attachment is the problem. — Rajneesh

Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without really thinking, until it turned into a chant:
They're afraid of change, and we must change.
They're afraid of the young, and we are the young.
They're afraid of music, and music is our life.
They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas.
They're most afraid of our magic. — James Patterson

Guy on the plane I'm on has a text alert that sounds like a gunshot ... And he isn't putting it on vibrate. — Frank Caliendo

We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago. — Steven Dietz

When I ask you who you are, you'd better say my fucking name. — Alicen Grey

Ty," Zane yelled, "don't shoot the tiger!"
"He started it." Ty continued to stare at the tiger, and the tiger at him. — Abigail Roux

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football. — Diego Maradona

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. — E.B. White