Rijssenbeek Quotes & Sayings

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world. — Bruce Springsteen

That night, I waited until Baba fell asleep, and then folded a blanket. I used it as a prayer rug. Bowing my head to the ground, I recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran-verses the mullah had made us commit to memory in Kabul-and asked for kindness from a god I wasn't sure existed. I envied the mullah now, envied his faith and certainty. — Khaled Hosseini

As long as people like me are unwilling to take risks, we will always be slaves to extremists who risk everything." - Kalila Mawiyah, Energy Dependence Day — Christian F. Burton

Harmony also is not a luxury, it is an evolutionary necessity, if we are to advance further. And harmony cannot be compromised for any book in the world, no matter how ancient, or who wrote it. — Abhijit Naskar

even though the mind of humanity was ultimately one mind, still, each and every single individual had to establish his or her own special, personal, particular, unique, direct, one-on-one, hands-on relationship with reality, with the universe, with the Divine. It might be complicated, it might be a pain in the ass, it might be, most of all, lonely - but it was the bottom line. — Tom Robbins

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. — Mignon McLaughlin

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years. — Fethullah Gulen

We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration. — Barbara Ehrenreich

And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say "we're the good guys" and do bad-guy things. — Terry Pratchett

Did you not think this was what the world was like? the Man from the Valley said to me. — Alice Hoffman

And like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough — Patty Smyth

No, no, no. Your girlfriend is there! — Stylo Fantome

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche