Sana All Quotes & Sayings

Further, the constitution of our consciousness is the ever present and lasting element in all we do or suffer; our individuality is persistently at work, more or less, at every moment of our life: all other influences are temporal, incidental, fleeting, and subject to every kind of chance and change. This is why Aristotle says: It is not wealth but character that lasts.
And just for the same reason we can more easily bear a misfortune which comes to us entirely from without, than one which we have drawn upon ourselves; for fortune may always change, but not character. Therefore, subjective blessings - a noble nature, a capable head, a joyful temperament, bright spirits, a well-constituted, perfectly sound physique, in a word, mens sana in corpore sano, are the first and most important elements in happiness; so that we should be more intent on promoting and preserving such qualities than on the possession of external wealth and external honor. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Sit mens sana in corpore sano
(a healthy mind in a healthy body) — Juvenal

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare. — Anthony Liccione

To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292 — Pearl S. Buck

Yes, sir. The mathematician Archimedes is related to have discovered the principle of displacement quite suddenly one morning, while in his bath.' 'Well, there you are. And I don't suppose he was such a devil of a chap. Compared with you, I mean.' 'A gifted man, I believe, sir. It has been a matter of general regret that he was subsequently killed by a common soldier.' 'Too bad. Still, all flesh is as grass, what? — P.G. Wodehouse

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing. — Truman Capote

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense. — Mahatma Gandhi

A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right. — Allan Dare Pearce

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet. — Jon Ronson

So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us do that. — Gerd R. Puin

Beauty by mistake'
the final phase in the history of beauty. — Milan Kundera

But sometimes this hatred broke like a wave, unexplainably collapsing under its own weight, and before it would begin to well up again, she suddenly felt nothing but pure compassion for him, a kindness and forgiveness that almost broke her heart. — Sana Krasikov

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool. — Robert T. Bakker

Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN. — Sana Rose

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.' — Miriam Defensor Santiago

Asperger's isn't a fault. It's a variant. It's potentially a major advantage. — Graeme Simsion

You still here? Josh moved over — Nora Roberts

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit. — Don Rickles

For if u have positive attitude n creativeness u will always see a graveyard as a beautiful garden ... — Sana

Do you know what broccoli is like to your body? It is like a hundred-dollar bill. When you eat it, you are paying yourself with health. Do you know what a cookie is like? It is Monopoly money! You're giving your body fraudulent currency. — Alissa Nutting

How can we all grow? — Marcus Buckingham

Do not feed fear. Starve it. — Poppet