Placenteras Quotes & Sayings

Hospitality is a prized virtue of monastic communities. Benedict's rule says: 'All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say, "I was a stranger and you welcomed me."' Brother Alphonsus served as a doorkeeper in the seventeenth century at a Jesuit college in Majorca, Spain. Each time someone knocked at the door he would reply, 'I am coming, Lord!' This practice reminded him to treat each person with as much respect as if it were Jesus himself at the door. — Ken Shigematsu

The older you get, the longer ago everything happened.

- Jason's Fifth Law — Jason Dias

was not old enough to understand the need to go back to a place where things were simple. He had no happiness in his face, the young ranger; perhaps he had never had a place where things were simple, a place he could think about when he needed to remember happiness. Perhaps the young ranger had been unlucky - he might have no good place or good time to remember. — Larry McMurtry

You were a cancer and I've carved you out, and I never feel so sick now. — Kevin Devine

Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex. — Michael Kimmel

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She's grateful for what she was born with. She should be. It's an awesome face, a perfect face, an ethereal face. The kind people write songs and poems and suicide notes about. It's that exotic kind of beauty that men in romance novels obsess over, even if they have no idea who you are, because they must possess you. That kind of beauty. — Katja Millay

He felt old at eleven. Amy — Gordon Korman

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor. — William Bradford

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go. — Porfirio Diaz

My looks by then had in any case declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me. — Christopher Hitchens