Newark Star Ledger Quotes & Sayings

Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story. — Richard Rohr

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me. — Ivanka Trump

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune. — Tom Peters

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for. — Brian Boitano

It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World? — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Make no mistake about the character of mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages - and power, the power to rule you by force, has always been their only lust (John Galt) — Ayn Rand

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to. — Geoffrey Chaucer

What does it really look like?
Isn't it obvious?
Not especially ...
You. It looks like you. — Jennifer E. Smith

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start. — Dale Evans

Let me dream so I can shape the world, let me dream so I can make others dream as well, but do not let me dream my days away; lest I sleep my years away too. — Dave Guerrero

Life is filled with trapdoors. — Brad Meltzer

Well, since you seem to know everything," I said, dead calm, "then you must also know that I take care of what's mine. You might be president of this frat, but I own the campus. Do. Not. Push. Me. — Cambria Hebert

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado