Semeli Estate Quotes & Sayings

He smiled.
Her stomach felt strange.
She tried to smile back. She really should be going.
So naturally, she did not move. — Julia Quinn

You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.
You cannot truly know strength without weakness.
You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.
You cannot truly know hope without despair. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the vast space of primordial awareness, and there is just this. Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of satori, that it was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with satori or awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: it's just this. — Ken Wilber

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back. — David Baker

We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border ... We will find a compromise within the country. — Petro Poroshenko

Some memories were harder to forget than others. Especially the painful ones. — Elizabeth Eulberg

Stop putting off today madam; you'll find that all those forgotten tomorrows have piled up into a bunch of old yesterdays. — Georg

I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface. — Euan Uglow

I shut him out. Maybe I'd send a water-dog barking after him later - let it bite him in the ass. I — Sarah J. Maas

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons. — P.D. James

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world. — Jim Walsh

One should never think or speak against one's desire, for it weakens the thought-vibrations and often brings about contrary results. A variety of thoughts springing up at the same time naturally enfeebles the power of mind, for none of them has a chance to mature, just as twins are often imperfect and triplets seldom live. The disharmony between one's desire and one's ideal always causes a great confusion in life, for they constantly work against each other. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sadly, some have had a very different experience in community. Rather than a transformation of soul, they have experienced a deformation of soul. They entered a community hoping to find a home of unconditional love. What they found was a self-righteous, self-protective, self-promoting reality. If this has been your experience, we are truly sorry. But the fact that communities often fail to live into what the gospel makes possible is no reason to reject community. The emergence of our true self depends on the community life we live in. It is critical that we all find a good church so that our true self can flourish. — Richard Plass