Nova Godina Quotes & Sayings

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. — John Dewey

Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way. — Steven Rinella

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction. — Augusten Burroughs

We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels. — Jay Woodman

Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning. — Margaret Atwood

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem. — Melanie Lynskey

Siddhartha looked at Yasodhara and then confusedly at the ornaments remaining on the table. He appeared flustered - there was nothing on the table worthy of Yasodhara's beauty. Suddenly he smiled. He removed the necklace around his own neck and held it out to Yasodhara. This is my gift to you, princess. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Intimate relationships only have God's blessing if the man and woman are married. — Sunday Adelaja

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.' — Angela Kinsey

We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words. — Martin Luther

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not. — Tracy McMillan