Perces Kenpo Quotes & Sayings

And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was "becoming". Wasn't it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times? — Clarice Lispector

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all. — Brian Morton

I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news. — Oprah Winfrey

Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better. — Richard Branson

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience. — Elvis Costello

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. — Heinrich Heine

In every problem there is opportunity to win or lose, rise or fall ... Ur actions or reactions are the deciding factor — Ikechukwu Joseph

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?' — Kal Penn

Mizuta Masahide's haiku: "My barn having burned down / I can now see the moon. — Sarah Lewis

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed. — Zoroaster

Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?

Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?

Give them me.
No.

Give them me. Give them me.
No.

Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
Lie in the mud and howl for them.

Goblin, why do you love them so?

They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.

Hush, I stole them out of the moon.

Give me your beads, I want them.
No.

I will howl in the deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give them me. Give them.
No. — Harold Monro

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand. — Tom Clancy

In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe. — Frederick Lenz