Simply Reminders Quotes & Sayings

You will remain theologically uneducated until you study carefully Athanasius, Augustine and Aquinas. — Thomas C. Oden

I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a metaphor - that it can never be simple as looking at you and saying yes, yes, yes. — Shinji Moon

Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen. — Sylvia Boorstein

It took my year in England to make me realize how much I had been simply treading water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in and seeking out life. The chance to escape from the reminders of illness and death, from a hectic life, and from clinical and teaching responsibilities was not unlike my earlier year as an undergraduate in St. Andrews: it gave me a semblance of peace that had eluded me, and a place of my own to heal and mull, but most important to heal. England did not have the Celtic, magical quality of St. Andrews - nothing, I suppose, ever could for me - but it gave me back myself again, gave me back my high hopes of life. And it gave me back, my belief in love. — Kay Redfield Jamison

If you worship false gods, the ripples bring a little of hell to earth. — Kyle Idleman

I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master. — Catherine Fisher

Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn't he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster's cage was clean, I'd be happy to oblige. — Janet Evanovich

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. — Agnes Repplier

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. — Douglas Adams

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books. — P. J. O'Rourke

The rules of grammar come later, if at all, as a way of enabling you to nourish and sustain the art of speaking well. Ethics, as an academic discipline, is simply the task of assembling reminders that enable us to remember how to speak and to live the language of the gospel. Ethics can never take the place of community any more than rules of grammar can replace the act of speaking the language. Ethics is always a secondary enterprise and is parasitic to the way people live together in a community. — Stanley Hauerwas

She'd been so certain she knew every crevice of his heart, but Jacob was like a country she'd only traveled through halfway. — Cornelia Funke

The Challenge in Life is not to have the absence of Fear, but to have the Courage to overcome it.-RVM — R.v.m.

If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas. — Will Durant

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun! — Dana Delany

All yours, sweetheart. — Elena Kincaid