Rastede Quotes & Sayings

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming. — Paulo Freire

You can change your life or not change it.
It really doesn't matter in the end.
Life as humans live it is too fleeting,
too incidental, too miniscule
for the universe to keep forever.
So just do good to others; be good, all
because it makes you happy,
happy beyond fame, power, and
eternity. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage. — Alexander McCall Smith

Even a passing moment has its fertile past. — Wislawa Szymborska

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic. — Stephen R. Covey

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked.

"When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it. — Jim Butcher

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.
[Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.] — Plautus

When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec