Piparo Studio Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial — Donna Tartt

And naturally I was reading in the library a few days later from a book about the Indian saint Sri Ramakrishna, and I stumbled upon a story about a seeker who once came to see the great master and admitted to him that she feared she was not a good enough devotee, feared that she did not love God enough. And the saint said, "Is there nothing you love?" The woman admitted that she adored her young nephew more than anything else on earth. The saint said, "There, then. He is your Krishna, your beloved. In your service to your nephew, you are serving God. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that's how I see it. — Joe Torre

FOR MOST OF human history, education was job training. Hunters, farmers, and warriors taught the young to hunt, farm, and fight. Children of the ruling class received instruction in the arts of war and governance, but this too was intended first and foremost as preparation for the roles they would assume later in society, not for any broader purpose. All that began to change twenty-five hundred years ago in ancient Greece. — Fareed Zakaria

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. — John Barth