Saint Faustina Kowalska Quotes & Sayings

All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell. — Ramsey Isler

Everyone sees only their own reflection in the mirror of thought. — Marty Rubin

There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors. — Albert Einstein

I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble. — Erma Bombeck

The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God. — Mary Faustina Kowalska

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority. — William Feather

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier. — Steven Weber

There is something very intimate and personal about one's books. They reveal so much of one's private soul. — Dion Fortune

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep. — Anton Chekhov

The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed. — Billy Graham

Will you pose for the nude?" I asked
breathlessly, as he jostled me on his
shoulder.
"Yes. With a condition."
"What condition?"
"I want you naked, as well, while you
paint. — R.K. Lilley

This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes — William M. Gray

And then it struck him what lay buried far down under the earth on which his feet were so firmly planted: the ominous rumbling of the deepest darkness, secret rivers that transported desire, slimy creatures writhing, the lair of earthquakes ready to transform whole cities into mounds of rubble. These, too, were helping to create the rhythm of the earth. He stopped dancing and, catching his breath, stared at the ground beneath his feet as though peering into a bottomless hole. — Haruki Murakami

For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer, or that people speak of me as a writer. I'm flattered, but I don't quite believe it. — Gustavo Perez Firmat