Permuafakatan Quotes & Sayings

Just as legendary rivers were used to represent the flow of life, so Mount Athos is a handy image to show human vulnerability. Its minerals themselves reminding us that ours is a planet constituted around Nature's awesome violence! Struggling to survive then, is integral to our existence. Literature on these issues, transforming rock and boulder into a subjective mountain, where fleshly mountaineers set forth, in the blinding brilliance of an alpine dawn, to ascend their own transgressions, remains telling. Breathing in, when nearing the top, to smell the pure air of spiritual comprehension: of heady intrinsic freedom, only to descend, once more, into the obscure and the pedestrian; albeit existentially transformed! In this way, indeed, Mount Athos transfigures many a man. — David William Parry

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. — Henry David Thoreau

I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like. — Stone Gossard

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done. — Elisabeth Elliot

When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes. — Stephen Covey

Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament. — Ron Davies

And these invitations, these are already sent out?" Rich asked from the front row. "Indeed. Ever since the year a student attempted to hijack the mail truck, we've made it policy to only remind the students of Parents' Weekend after all the invitations are delivered, — Drew Hayes

I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

There is greatness in everyone.
Look within yourself and discover your greatness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The quest for the face of God has two central dimensions - the quest for His presence and the quest for His favor. — Bill Johnson

To our natural and human reason, I say that these terms 'large,' 'small,' 'immense,' 'minute,' etc. are not absolute but relative; the same thing in comparison with various others may be called at one time 'immense' and at another 'imperceptible. — Galileo Galilei

Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it. — Peter Heller

But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more. I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round. — Anne Frank

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences. — Catherine Deneuve