Riflettuto Quotes & Sayings

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. — Franz Kafka

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please? — Moliere

He was watching her, testing the edges of her emotions and believing she was unaware of what he was doing. So she gave him the emotion he craved most from her, need. She couldn't say it , couldn't make the first move. She counted on him to do that. It absolved her of responsibility for the mistake she intended to make. — Melissa Marr

As Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, "It matters not where or how far you travel - the farther commonly the worse - but how much alive you are." Two — Pico Iyer

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. — Van Morrison

When you're wide open, the world is a good place. — Sharon Salzberg

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I would obviously like to have been arriving in Valencia with the title still up for grabs, let's not kid ourselves, but even though Valentino has won, the season is not over for me. — Sete Gibernau

A smile is his only answer, but it doesn't matter. I already know how, and it doesn't scare me: Damien Stark can see beneath my mask. — J. Kenner

When we pray the Psalms we are continuing a three-thousand-year-old tradition - a tradition practiced by Jesus and the Apostles. We pray the Psalms, not to express what we feel, but to learn to feel what they express. In praying the Psalms we learn to experience the whole range of human emotion in a way that is healthy and healing. — Brian Zahnd

If spiritual formation is the purpose of the church, then personal transformation should intentionally be the purpose of the small group ministry. Bible study is great. Fellowship is wonderful. Evangelism is essential. But changing and growing to be more like Christ should be the purpose of the small group ministry. — James MacDonald