Sebastian Michaelis Famous Quotes & Sayings

I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble at save the injustice of Providence that has so clearly favored me. — Franz Kafka

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. — William Penn

One must be grateful for one's education no matter how it arrives. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

He could think only of the girl and the child. He was certain she had been ready to change her mind, had needed only the command, I, a priest of God, adjure thee, and the grace to hear it - if only they had not forced him to stop where she could witness "God's priest" summarily overruled by "Caesar's traffic cop." Never to him had Christ's Kingship seemed more distant. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity. — Paramahansa Yogananda

One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes. - Maitri Upanishads — Steven D. Price