Samarakoon Duminda Quotes & Sayings

Manly P. Hall states in his book The Mystical Christ: "Mysticism has been called the path of pain, not because its way is one of suffering, but because most are brought to recognition of realities by temporal or physical misfortunes. In the human experience, suffering nearly always resolves itself into a question. This uncertainty inspires a larger effort to discover the rules governing human activity. — Terry McBride

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them. — John Steinbeck

Falling in love is some kind of madness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know. — Oliver Stone

I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise. — Mika.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil. — Nick Harkaway

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn. — Margaret Fuller

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile. — Hubert H. Humphrey

office jokers were a crime in progress - — Mick Herron

Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation. — Hugh Prather

To be a power to reckon with you need to believe in yourself and your dreams. — Stephen Richards

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. — Sidney Poitier

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. — Oscar Isaac

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit. — Francis Chan