Referentia Quotes & Sayings

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low. — Brad Meltzer

It takes discipline to be a free spirit. — Gabrielle Roth

I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being. — Tahereh Mafi

I was in an empty field when I came across a tree. This tree was full of white blossoms and succulent cherries. The sun was shining and the breeze was blowing - everything was lovely. I looked back at the tree and its pure white blossoms were stained with blood. I gazed down in front of me, in horror, as a wooden cross marked the place of a small dirty mound. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal. — E. M. Forster

For hearts where wakened love doth lurk,
How fine, how blest a thing is work!
For work does good when reasons fail. — Jean Ingelow

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts. — William Makepeace Thackeray

We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street, as happens to every man and woman, there can be accidents. However, if the church remains closed in on itself, self-referentia l, it gets old. Between a church that suffers accidents in the street, and a church that's sick because it's self-referentia l, I have no doubts about preferring the former. — Pope Francis

Confidence without skill is just emptiness. — Erik Weihenmayer