Mpenzi Wangu Quotes & Sayings

There are moments of oneness with the Beloved, absolutely ecstasy and bliss. That is nothingness. And this nothingness loves you, responds to you, fulfills you utterly and yet there is nothing there. You flow out like a river without diminishing. This is the great mystical experience, the great ecstasy. — Irina Tweedie

Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers. — Neal A. Maxwell

Your belief is the operating system on which your life runs. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'. — James Berryman

It strikes me that I need to throw out the dictionary the world gave me about what it means to be a mother, a wife, a person of faith, an artist, and a woman and write my own. — Glennon Doyle Melton

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two. — Alan Shapiro

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] — Horace

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head. — William J. Casey

Marta Jolicoeur: We all learned how to ride from George and had wonderful riding careers but more than that, George taught us how to be successful in life...George had us all sized up. He used to tell me that I'm a worrier and he was right! I used to get rally nervous in the ring when I was about fifteen, and he made me go around the ring, reciting out loud, 'I know I'm going to see a distance. It might be a little short or a little long, but I know I'm going to see something.' I would have to say it loud over and over again on course... — George H. Morris

The torches went out, and in the darkness, he placed his lips to my ear. I believe you because I choose to; not because I do. — Peter S. Beagle

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other. — Yousuf Karsh

A man of reason? A disinterested philosopher? I'd rather be a puppy wagging its tail. — Marty Rubin

Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent. — Frances Wright