Paradela Exploit Quotes & Sayings

There was a time when the word "friend" meant something deeper, not the cheap thing it has become because of Facebook. — Catherine Torres

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die — Steve Biko

The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else. — Victor Shamas

Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. — Oprah Winfrey

I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with. — Richard Masur

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage. — Stuart Pearson Wright

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure — Chogyam Trungpa

Within the substandard construction of the Charlevoix church, literally upon a shaky foundation, I was baptized into the Orthodox faith; a faith that had existed long before Protestantism had anything to protest and before Catholicism called itself catholic; a faith that stretched back to the beginnings of Christianity, when it was Greek and not Latin, and which, without an Aquinas to reify it, had remained shrouded in the smoke of tradition and mystery whence it began. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Among other strategies, he set up a "charitable lead trust" that enabled him to pass on his estate to his sons without inheritance taxes, so long as the sons donated the accruing interest on the principal to charity for twenty years. To maximize their self-interest, in other words, the Koch boys were compelled to be charitable. Tax avoidance was thus the original impetus for the Koch brothers' extraordinary philanthropy. As David Koch later explained, "So for 20 years, I had to give away all that income, and I sort of got into it. — Jane Mayer

I'm not bipolar, I've just had a bipolar life foisted upon me. — Daniel O'Malley

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them. — Clarence H. Burns