Rastros Quotes & Sayings

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

Is anything going to kill me if I use your bathroom?" I finally asked.
"Knowing you?" Pritkin's voice was muffled since he hadn't raised his head.
I frowned. "Is that a yes?"
A couple of fingers came up to massage his temple. "That is a no. Assuming you didn't bring anything deadly along with you. — Karen Chance

She's the One all right," she muttered. "Poor thing. — Frank Herbert

We're all Bolsheviks now," Izzie said blithely. "And at my table!" Hugh said and laughed. — Kate Atkinson

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world. — Homer

Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy. — Ayn Rand

What good things might happen if you truly got to know the people in your neighborhood and they got to know you? — Jay Pathak

The proud man is forsaken of God. — Plato

To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty. — Steven Erikson

If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will renew your mind, despite the fact you know not how. — Watchman Nee