Shoja Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of your life is Joy. — Esther Hicks

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? — Philip Johnson

40 Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the LORD; 41 Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven. — Anonymous

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again? — C. Wagner

The sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall. The proud do not endure, like a passing dream on a night in spring; the mighty fall at last, to be no more than dust before the wind. — Helen Craig McCullough

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society. — H.L. Mencken