Opat Standards Quotes & Sayings

How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy! — Richelle E. Goodrich

Health is being in harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric. Health is maintaining communication with the animals and plants and minerals and stars. It is knowing death and life and seeing no difference. It is blending and melding, seeking solitude and seeking companionship to understand one's many levels. Unlike the more "modern" notions, in shamanic society health is not the absence of feeling; no more so is it the absence of pain. Health is seeking out all of the experiences of Creation and turning them over and over, feeling their texture and multiple meanings. Health is expanding beyond one's singular state of consciousness to experience the ripples and waves of the universe. — Jeanne Achterberg

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world. — Charles Darwin

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination. — Edmund White

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory.
The first on to use it will win. — Marcial MacIel

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates. — Dave Barry

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion. — David Hume

The ground keeps changing."
He gave her arm a gentle pinch. "Do you still think this is a dream?"
"All dreams change," said Saffron. "That's how you know they're dreams."
"So does reality," he replied. "That's how you know it's real. — Foz Meadows

Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her "place" as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers. — Robert Jordan

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die. — Curtis Sliwa

I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide. — Martha Cooley

And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.'
Did she ever come out?'
Not yet. — Gregory Maguire