Rompasa Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated. — Francis Bacon

If you would ask me what to study I would say, yourselves; and when you well had studied them, and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply, yourselves. — Levi Dowling

'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside. — Natalie MacMaster

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for. — Miles Franklin

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness. — Alex Grey

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. — Carlos Santana

I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by — Abraham Lincoln

Some important decisions were made on a battlefield or in a conference room. But others happened quietly, unseen by others. That didn't make the decision any less important to Sazed. He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to. — Brandon Sanderson

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls. — Sam Worthington

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out. — Jon Voight

Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? ... Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love. — Elizabeth McCracken

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others ... it is drowning. — Perry Brass

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life. — Aristotle.