Penghayatan Rukun Quotes & Sayings

J. B. Jackson, a historian of landscapes, makes a crucial point about such things in his essay "The Necessity for Ruins." Things in decay, he says, express a theology of birth, death, and redemption. — Thomas Moore

Recently, I've begun to think of scoliosis as a metaphor for my life. I've struggled to please teachers, employers, parents, boyfriends, husbands, twisting myself into someone I can't be. I hurt when I do this, because it's not natural. And it never works. But when I stretch my Self, instead, the results are different. When I'm reaching for my personal goals - to be a good mother, wife, friend and writer - I feel my balance return. And the sense of relief, as I become more the woman I truly am, is simply grand. — Linda C. Wisniewski

It was one of Mrs. Hale's fitful days, when everything was a difficulty and a hardship; and Mr Lennox's appearance took this shape, although secretly she felt complimented by his thinking it worthwhile to call. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore. — Larry David

Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind. — Santosh Kalwar

What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns - as well as her own family. — Malala Yousafzai

So plunge that fact into your conscience and allow it to rotate for a while. Until it hurts. — Melina Marchetta

We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot! — Henry Morgenthau Jr.

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,
I giggle and dote in season. — Stevie Smith

No matter how attractive a person's potential may be, you have to date their reality. — Mandy Hale

Belle could be that way, too. Provoked, she lashed out, and abandoned, she broke. BACKSTAGE — Leslie Parry

It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind. — Karen Armstrong

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Start first and increase your lead. — Buddy Melges