Occhiones Quotes & Sayings

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. — Carol S. Dweck

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence? — Mary C. Ames

Better laid than never. — Joan Rivers

A bad war is fought with a good mind. — George Washington

Happiness is a hardy annual. — Ellen Glasgow

Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God. — Tanith Lee

i didn't want your smile ,
i didn't want your tears,
i just want you to smile with tears. — Sushil Singh

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true! — Amanda Schull

It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions are just the same' as the older dogmaticians did about insisting on particular formulations and interpretations. The dogma that all dogmas are wrong, the monolithic insistence that all monolithic systems are to be rejected, has taken hold of the popular imagination at a level far beyond rational or logical discourse. — N. T. Wright

The heart of man will never find true peace, if it does not empty itself of all that is not God, so as to free itself all free for His love, that He alone may possess the whole of it. But this the soul cannot do of itself; it must obtain it of God by repeated prayers. — Alfonso Maria De Liguori