Rieras Quotes & Sayings

Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do. — Thomas Merton

Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice. — S. Kelley Harrell

Through a trick lighting technique
the skyline was made and faded
with the care of a pointillist -
maybe aiding us to think nothing was
missing. We traded verbs

about what was happening
in the metropolis, realizing,
in the scorched plum of dusk,
actual human infinity was occurring
on an island before us.... — Kristen Henderson

Smile out loud! Make them wonder. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter. — Thomas Sydenham

19Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. 20And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? + 21Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. 22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.* + — Anonymous

But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake? — Charles Stuart Calverley

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. — Edmund Wilson

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious. — Andy Hargreaves

The criminal law is no use to decent people. — George Bernard Shaw

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it. — Colin Meloy