Sampognaro Quotes & Sayings

Many of us have things backwards. We believe that we have to wait to create the circumstances we want in life and rack up a lot of successes so we can finally relax. Actually, it works the other way around. We should leave where we are and move to where we ultimately dream of living, whether it's Boulder, Santa Monica, Chicago, or Tibet. Then once we're there, we'll figure out ways to fashion a livelihood that will enable us to survive and to prosper from there. Paradise shouldn't wait, and happiness shouldn't either. — Gary Goodman

Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity. — Debasish Mridha

Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others. — Ludwig Von Mises

I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than half a century, is that I get to use my imagination. — Tyne Daly

Add books to your circle of friends: they will enrich your life; take you places you've never been; give you perspective you never knew existed; guide your path to knowledge like a faithful teacher. — J Tan

We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less suffering, nd much of our suffering is with other people, then perhaps we need to reexamine our sole commitment to these individual practices ... As our individual pracitce deepens, it may yiled true ease. But whether we practice meditation in seclusion or independently alongside other meditators at a meditation group or retreat, individual meditation approaches the confusion and pain of our relational lives only indirectly. — Greg Kramer

All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty. — Deb Caletti

If God is your Father, you can count on the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and illumine His truth. He will burn it into your heart as you read the Bible, ingrain it into your thinking, live it out in obedience, and let Him continually keep you aligned with ultimate reality. — Stephen Kendrick

Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself. — Avi Dichter

Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life. — Leah Raeder

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild. — Wilkie Collins

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable. — Douglas Feith

What one person takes away from a book might be very different from what the next person takes away
almost as if the story is altered depending on who's reading, where, and when. But then, maybe all books are like that
a little different each time they are opened. The real question is who's doing the changing: the story, or the reader. — Jodi Picoult