Praktiskos Quotes & Sayings

Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so. — Blaise Pascal

I really do not want to carry some kind of party function. — Dalai Lama

There is a big difference between separation of church and state, and separation of God and state.

There is a rightful separation of church and state in the sense of function and jurisdiction. God does intend, however, for churches as well as civil governments to both function under His authority. Both have equal accountability under God.He is equally Lord of both. Separation of Church and state? Of course, in terms of function and jurisdiction. But separation of God and government? Try convincing God of that. — Christian Overman

The biggest trick of power may be to make its own existence unseen. — Amine Zidouh

As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season. — Kassim Osgood

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss. — Ursula K. Le Guin

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. — Bodhidharma

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance. — Sterling W. Sill

To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust. — William Tecumseh Sherman

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool. — Smokey Robinson

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to. — Ned Vizzini

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. — Swami Vivekananda

I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas. — P. K. Subban

As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once? — Ken Wilber

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture. — Dev Patel