Ptiya Quotes & Sayings

Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful — Deepak Chopra

Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self. — Epictetus

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense. — Joshua Oppenheimer

On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship. — R. Kent Hughes

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices. — Sarah West

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all. — Audrey Hepburn

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now. — Alan Lightman

It's whatever the majority deems it to be. It's not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it's the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole. — Paulo Coelho

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano. — Liza Minnelli

Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted ... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen. — Wilhelm II

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change. — Sam Walton