Osmanli Tokadi Quotes & Sayings

Is the basic teaching of Buddhism - on ignorance, deliverance and enlightenment - really life-denying, or is it rather the same kind of life-affirming liberation that we find in the Good News of Redemption, the Gift of the Spirit, and the New Creation? — Thomas Merton

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead ... or a really effective oligarch. — Gary Shteyngart

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!" — Drew Barrymore

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
human in the truest sense of the word. — Rudolf Steiner

No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science ignores them. But to claim they are a fabrication and do not exist because science ignores them is a mistake. Because ghosts are real. — Natsuhiko Kyogoku

I can't jump high, so I jump from high places. — Mick Foley

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo

The real story of Nader, Shahed, and other women who live as men in Afghanistan is not so much about how they break gender norms or what they have become by doing that. Rather, it is about this: Between gender and freedom, freedom is the bigger and more important idea. In Afghanistan as well as globally. Defining one's gender becomes a concern only after freedom is achieved. Then a person can begin to fill the word with new meaning. — Jenny Nordberg