Rogner Une Quotes & Sayings

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them. — Albert Ellis

Behold the man I also know how to be. — Muriel Barbery

And as the end arrived and his breath left him he couldn't remember or imagine ever having cared. — Chad Harbach

For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally. — Dave Eggers

Chogyam is spinning, watching the spinning / samsara; If there is no samsara / spinning, there is no Chogyam.
- from the poem Cynical Letter by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche — Trungpa Chogyam

Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet ... — John Flavel

I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story. — Sandra Cisneros

All significant breakthroughs are break -"withs" old ways of thinking. — Thomas Kuhn

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets. — Robert D. Hales

Thank you, brave soldier, for going into battle for me by feeding my fish. — Raine Miller

Perhaps even "his own people" - this time not the Jewish people of the first century, but the would-be Christian people of the Western world - have not been ready to recognize Jesus himself. We want a "religious" leader, not a king! We want someone to save our souls, not rule our world! Or, if we want a king, someone to take charge of our world, what we want is someone to implement the policies we already embrace, just as Jesus's contemporaries did. — N. T. Wright