Ovejero Suizo Quotes & Sayings

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me. — Mahatma Gandhi

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as "natural" (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, beyond counting. — Robert Charles Wilson

The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself? — Paul Brunton

You couldn't ask a person to remain supportive through any crisis. If a man's wife were suddenly afflicted with a mental illness, it would be a sin for him to leave her, but a forgivable one. To stay would mean accepting a different kind of relationship, something not everyone was cut out for ...
'Division by Zero — Ted Chiang

If I survived at all, it would be a triumph. If I swam, it would be a miracle. As I unlocked my door, I thought of my mother putting her age back fifteen years and going into the merchant marines. I had to try. If I ended in defeat, at least I would be trying. Trying to overcome was black people's honorable tradition. — Maya Angelou

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house. — Dave Winfield

I loved you both with all of my damaged heart. — Kristin Hannah

The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous. — Muriel Barbery

Things don't always change with a bang. Sometimes they change so gradually that you can't clearly pinpoint the last moment they were truly the same. — C.K. Kelly Martin

The Incredible Five-Point Scale (Buron & Curtis, 2004). — Jennifer Byde Myers

How strange it is to realize now that although I was frightened of the emptiness between us, that emptiness was not his fault but mine: I was waiting to see what he would give me, how he would entertain me. And yet I was incapable of being profoundly interested in him or, maybe, in anyone. Just the reverse of what I thought at the time, when it seemed so simple: he was too callow, or too cautious, or just too young, not complex enough yet, and so he did not entertain me, and it was his fault. — Lydia Davis

Peter Maurin always says that it is the duty of the journalist to make history as well as record it. - Dorothy Day — Patrick Jordan

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most. — Christopher Pike

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible. — Haruki Murakami

Stretched by an idea,
we can aspire to new heights,
new ways of thinking. — J. Benson