Pastagem Zuri Quotes & Sayings

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more limited credibility in the modern world, among people willing to be modern - the process is under surveillance now. With this illness, one that elicits so much guilt and shame, the effort to detach it from these meanings, these metaphors, seems particularly liberating, even consoling. But the metaphors cannot be distanced just by abstaining from them. They have to be exposed, criticized, belabored, used up. — Susan Sontag

To evolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrection. That's the basic motif of the universal hero's journey - leaving one condition and finding the source of life to bring you forth into a richer or mature condition. — Joseph Campbell

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf. — Anton Chekhov

[In 2007] People's relationship with a brand is becoming a dialog, not a monolog. — Lee Clow

I love you. ... they are the three most abused and underused words in the English language. — Andrea Boeshaar

Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. — Leo Tolstoy

I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is.
I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place.
I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart.
I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girls outward appearance, and into her soul. — Meg Cabot

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible. — Ray Bradbury

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing. — H. Richard Niebuhr

I'm a bargain shopper. — Cheyenne Kimball

Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state is dying to oneself, - to one's own opinions, wishes and feelings or tastes, in order to live by Divine intellect, in conformity with the Divine will and in partaking of God. In the forefront of this endeavor is our Lord and Savior. He surrendered the whole of Himself to God the Father, and us in Himself, 'For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones' (Eph. 5:30). So let us hasten in His footsteps? — Lorenzo Scupoli