Shreshtha Patel Quotes & Sayings

It is best to think of a pastoral transition as a blended family in which former effective ministries are adopted by the new pastor while new ministries are birthed as well. — Carolyn Weese

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton

There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success. — Leigh Hunt

In the same way, God sometimes turns off the other sources of our pleasure so that we might learn to find all of our delight in him. He must be our desire. — William B. Barcley

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there. — Harper Lee

Vast emptiness, nothing holy. — Bodhidharma

I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative. — Curtis Granderson

I don't belong to you, Derek." "Oh?" He challenged me. "I belong with you. — Bella Forrest

MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace ... Keeping the peace means no more than prohibiting persons from unpeaceful actions ... When government goes beyond this, that is, when government prohibits peaceful actions, such prohibitions themselves are, prima facie, unpeaceful. — Leonard E. Read

On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you. — Elif Shafak

Many Buddhists understand the Round of birth-and-death quite literally as a process of reincarnation, wherein the karma which shapes the individual does so again and again in life after life until, through insight and awakening, it is laid to rest. But in Zen, and in other schools of the Mahayana, it is often taken in a more figurative way, as that the process of rebirth is from moment to moment, so that one is being reborn so long as one identifies himself with a continuing ego which reincarnates itself afresh at each moment of time. Thus the validity and interest of the doctrine does not require acceptance of a special theory of survival. — Alan W. Watts

PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Schleicher. — Amanda Ripley

We may even find out why the duck-billed platypus.*
*Not why is it anything. Just why it is. — Terry Pratchett