Polska Chata Quotes & Sayings

Our civilization overflows with charity - which is simply willingness to hand back to labor as generous gracious alms a small part of the loot from the just wages of labor. But of real help - just wages for honest labor - there is little, for real help would disarrange the system, would abolish the upper classes. She — David Graham Phillips

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! — F Scott Fitzgerald

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music. — Maya Angelou

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken. — Annie Besant

Do not panic but pray when you face any problem. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. — Kathleen Norris

A mind is not a barren field, but it is an ever-growing and ever blooming garden of love. — Debasish Mridha

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience. — Bryan Fuller

When you look at the mirror, the person you see will be determined by the
vision you have, your boldness and the risk you are prepared to take. It is as simple as that. — Aji R Michael

Wiping out is an underappreciated skill. — Laird Hamilton

I would take them a few times, feel my emotions and sense of reality fuzz, and look at my mother who had been doped up on them since we moved to Chattanooga. I would see her blank, hazel eyes, and her bright, but empty, smile with chronic, artificial, exaggerated cheer, and become scared. I often wondered if she was buried under layers upon layers of southern sugar. I would make bitchy, inappropriate statements and look for her. I would say something, anything to shake her and look into her eyes for something real. I saw it when she was upset or afraid. I saw it when she'd spot me exiting my bathroom, hair tied back, knowing what I'd done. I saw it when she found out I was raped. I saw it when I told her about the drugs I used. I saw flickers of a real person, but she quickly disappeared within herself once she gathered composure. I decided not to be like her. Even if it meant embracing my demons, I wanted to be real. After a couple doses, I would toss the meds in the garbage. — Maggie Young

Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above. — Oswald Chambers

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion. — Brendan Myers

I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love?
I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer. — John Lennon