Nanzenji Junsei Quotes & Sayings

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here. — Rumi

I never went to the priests to confess," she said, "because I knew they would despise me for my sin. Yet when you named all my sins today, I could bear it because I knew you didn't despise me. I couldn't understand why, though, till now."
"I'm not one to despise other people for their sins," said Ender. "I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say inside myself, I've done worse than this."
"All these years you've borne the burden of humanity's guilt. — Orson Scott Card

always believed in who I am even during the times I struggled to believe myself. — Amy Engel

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie

We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs may be in the hands of the fin-de-siecle gilded youths we see about us during the Christmas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury, such insolence,was surely never practiced by the scented, overbearing patricians of the Palatine, even in Rome's most decadent epoch. In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gilded youth has been surely the worst symptom. — Booth Tarkington

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that. — Jake Epstein

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people. — Pat Robertson

Man is never his emotions and that all feelings are ephemeral- that no one is truly genuinely ecstatic, sad, angry or passionately in love forever, which means emotions are never to be trusted. — Lourd De Veyra

Oh courage ... oh yes! If only one had that ... Then life might be livable, in spite of everything. — Henrik Ibsen

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it. — Susan Vreeland

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it. — Kato Lomb

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven. — Drew Gilpin Faust

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus — Derren Brown

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society. — Edwin Land