Saint Maria Faustina Quotes & Sayings

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison and murder each other, how to govern badly, and how to take the wealth of our country and place it in Swiss bank accounts? Have you ever wondered why it is that all we seem to have learned from you is how to corrupt our societies and how to be tyrants? You will have to accept that this is mostly your fault — Jamaica Kincaid

It's true, I'm impressed with myself, almost daily. If I don't impress myself then how am I ever to feel accomplished?"
"Who cares if you impress others?"
"Indeed. Others' opinions hardly matter, but one's own sense of accomplishment is paramount, is it not? — Ridley Pearson

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up ... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do ... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started. — Michael Morpurgo

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory. — Terry Pratchett

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird. — Ransom Riggs

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. — Paul Ryan

What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea. About everything, I should fancy. You have such an absolutely trivial nature. — Oscar Wilde

Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose. — Joseph Weizenbaum

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble. — Ray Dalio

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail. — Romeo LeBlanc