Pumarin Quotes & Sayings

In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations ... If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa ... the independence movement in India ... ) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world. — Walter Wink

You don't know love?"
"No."
"But you're so certain that this is it, that what we have - what we're doing - that this is us in love?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because it's what love should be. — Penny Reid

But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling. — Dashiell Hammett

When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever. — Jack Kornfield

Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon. — Eric Samuel Timm

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease. — Joseph Addison

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could. — David Walton

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind. — Ben Aaronovitch

He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there. — Arthur Golden

Our Savior was a suffering Savior. He went before us into the uncharted land of agony and death. He went where no man is called to go. His Father gave Him a cup to drink that will never touch our lips. God will not ask us to endure anything comparable to the distress Christ took on Himself. 'Wherever God calls us to go, whatever He summons us to endure, will fall far short of what Jesus experienced. — R.C. Sproul

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel. — Chris LeDoux

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse. — Lester Bangs

You never know whether the subject matter will click with the audience at that particular time. I wish there was a formula, you know, 'That plus that equals success.' — Michelle Yeoh