Nikolaas Demoen Quotes & Sayings

The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life ... labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION. — Deepak Chopra

The adage: "He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom," could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though — Paramahansa Yogananda

God still hasn't recovered from the time that Satan doubted him ... all God wants is someone to believe in him ... God needs people to believe in him. — Mike Murdock

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better. — Huey Lewis

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions. — John Ridley

You know you have the key to my heart and no one but you can open it. — Auliq Ice

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child there is more joy in a rubbish tip than a flowery rockery, in a fallen tree than a piece of statuary, in a muddy track than a gravel path. — Iona Opie

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino. — Ava DuVernay

The sacred words are sword of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. — Stanley Hauerwas