Moto Desert Quotes & Sayings

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay. — Kathleen Norris

I was angry with him before. I'm not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it's been played on me twice. — Veronica Roth

Oh, this is a reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied till we are brought to this — George Muller

Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list! — Kim Richards

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself. — Josh Hartnett

Love, then, is really everything that is of value, and fear can offer us nothing because it is nothing. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn't quite where you were heading. — Anne Lamott

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint. — Don Pendleton

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will? — Bernard Of Clairvaux

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person. — Kenny Chesney

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. — Voltaire

A man that knows his time is always bold, courageous and confident — Sunday Adelaja

What goes up will surely fall and I'm counting down the time — Linkin Park