Plien Van Quotes & Sayings

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world. — Neal A. Maxwell

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There was an agitation against Mumbai Express: because part of it is an English word. There is no Tamil word for Mumbai Express. I am sure all those who were against it, even they wouldn't say 'I love you' to their lovers in Tamil. Many don't even thank in Tamil, — Kamal Haasan

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other . — Nicholas Sparks

Too often we seek justice for just us. — James Alexander Thom

To put it simply: the Holy Spirit bothers us. Because he moves us, he makes us walk, he pushes the Church to go forward. And we are like Peter at the Transfiguration: 'Ah, how wonderful it is to be here like this, all together!' ... But don't bother us. We want the Holy Spirit to doze off ... we want to domesticate the Holy Spirit. And that's no good. because he is God, he is that wind which comes and goes and you don't know where. He is the power of God, he is the one who gives us consolation and strength to move forward. But: to move forward! And this bothers us. It's so much nicer to be comfortable. — Pope Francis

Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce
the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore. — Euripides

For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight. — Zack W. Van

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained. — Chanakya

What is my religion? Simple. Kindness. — Dalai Lama

Brother, the act of faith, by which you accept and enter this life in the New Covenant, is not commonly an act of power, but often of weakness and fear and much trembling. — Andrew Murray

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars. — Buzz Aldrin

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. — Keith Jarrett

I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge. — Brandi Carlile

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth. — Robert Browning