Pampillonia Bethesda Quotes & Sayings

If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world? — Bill McKibben

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? — Luc De Clapiers

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone. — Patty Duke

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's. — George Horace Lorimer

Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened. — Charles Duhigg

Too much power. Too much. Even the Blood weren't meant to wield this much power. Even Witch had never controlled this much power. This one did. This young Queen. This daughter of his soul. With effort, Saetan steadied his breathing. He could accept her. He could love her. Or he could fear her. The decision was his, and whatever he decided here, now, he would have to live with. — Anne Bishop

We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness. — Robin Hobb

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. — Mike Svob

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow