Pagatha Quotes & Sayings

You are guaranteed failure if you accept it. Victory is almost in your hands if you are willing to die for it. Success is already yours if God has ordained it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime. — Jane Hirshfield

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think. — Brother Lawrence

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding
Riding
riding
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. — Alfred Noyes

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture. — Merle Woo

Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn't look like Ariel. — Lydia Millet

To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture. — Moby

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. — Jacques Derrida

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story. — Donald Miller

He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone.
Human beings themselves, after death, become figures in a dream to the survivors , they fade away and are forgotten, like dreams that were once convincing, but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents who find in their children a receptive audience, with the result that in the child's credulous imagination they find a last semblance of life, which quickly dims out as if they had never existed ... — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Tell me how to earn my father's favor, Joseph. You always know what to do." I am sure my words came out muffled through my hands.
"Perhaps you seek the wrong objective."
I did not understand. I met Joseph's calm gaze. "What do you mean, seeking the wrong objective? Isn't every son supposed to honor their father?"
"Yes, but honor is not the same as earning his favor. You are trying to earn something you cannot obtain. — Sarah Holman

To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more the cause of them than were the kings of the imperialistic period the cause of war. — E. M. Forster

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts. — Seth Godin

The absence of God's answer is a clear answer; it speaks of the need to get closer to God — Sunday Adelaja