Papa Franjo Quotes & Sayings

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right. — Russell Peters

Happiness is a delightful heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently — Sunday Adelaja

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power. — Eric Metaxas

Let me see," Opal said.
She quickly slurped up the rest of her lunch and then
took the collar. She examined it very closely. Sure enough,
she could see bits of evergreen fur pinched along the buckle strap. As she looked closer, she noticed something else. Several pieces of black onyx were sewn into the back of the collar, and they started glowing.
"Well look at that," Jack said. "Somebody's put a spider in this biscuit. — Mark Caldwell Jones

I'm married to the future. — Robert Ferrigno

Charlotte." No, no, no. "Dixie, wait, listen to me - — Rachel Hauck

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents. — Gurinder Chadha

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future. — Paul Kingsnorth

Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the opponent can't return. But that's not a truth about life or excellence -- it's a truth about tennis. We've created an artificial structure in which one person can't succeed without doing so at someone else's expense, and then we accuse anyone who prefers other kinds of activities of being naive because "there can be only one best -- you're it or you're not," as the teacher who delivered that much-admired you're-not-special commencement speech declared. You see the sleight of hand here? The question isn't whether everyone playing a competitive game can win or whether every student can be above average. Of course they can't. The question that we're discouraged from asking is why our games are competitive -- or our students are compulsively ranked against one another -- in the first place. — Alfie Kohn

War is the province of danger. — Carl Von Clausewitz

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. — Pliny The Younger