Silent Boy Lois Lowry Quotes & Sayings

The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A world so afraid of otherness. — Ransom Riggs

If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be — John Lancaster Spalding

Circumstances and situations do color life, but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be. — Robert Holden

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology. — Jeffrey Katzenberg

Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited. — Tarthang Tulku

Sustainable success can only happen on purpose — Seth Czerepak

From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths. — Karen Armstrong

The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross. — C.P. Cavafy

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. — Aldo Leopold

ADULTERATION (ADULTERA'TION) n.s.[from adulterate.]1. The act of adulterating or corrupting by foreign mixture; contamination. To make the compound pass for the rich metal simple, is an adulteration, or counterfeiting: but if it be done avowedly, and without disguising, it may be a great saving of the richer metal.Bacon'sNatural History,No 798.2. The state of being adulterated, or contaminated. — Samuel Johnson

God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away. — Philo