Ricominciamo Quotes & Sayings

I also enjoyed praying at night for forgiveness, secure in the knowledge I'd not really done anything in need of forgiving. — Melanie Benjamin

Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening. — Rae Carson

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. — Nirmalananda

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. — Jesus Christ

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism. — Mahatma Gandhi

He only kissed her and she kissed him and her knees went weak and her heart raced and she thought for a moment that she saw fireworks. — Charlie Lovett

The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so. — Norm Phelps

Have you ever felt like you were constantly in awaiting your own trial? — Ophelia Callens

I never knew. I never knew as I washed, and the blood streaked, faded, and finally disappeared, whether I'd purified myself or ruined the blood sign of the passover. — Annie Dillard

Oh Florence, Florence, patroness
of the lovely tyrannicides!
Where the tower of the Old Palace
pierces the sky
like a hypodermic needle,
Perseus, David and Judith,
lords and ladies of the Blood,
Greek demi-gods of the Cross,
rise sword in hand
above the unshaven
formless decapitation
of the monsters, tubs of guts,
mortifying chunks for the pack.
Pity the monsters!
Pity the monsters!
Perhaps, one always took the wrong side -
Ah, to have known, to have loved
too many David and Judiths!
My heart bleeds for the monster.
I have seen the Gorgon.
The erotic terror
of her helpless, big-bosomed body
lay like slop.
Wall-eyed, staring the despot to stone,
her severed head swung
like a lantern in the victor's hand. — Robert Lowell