Skalbeja Quotes & Sayings

When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice. — Frederick Lenz

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.
To the latecomers are left the bones. — Junot Diaz

If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place. — Hamza Yusuf

We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God's faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives. — David Jeremiah

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer. — Christopher Hitchens

Common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the repetitious, the pathetic, the hostile, the deluded, the sefl-righteous, and the shrill. This criticism overlooks the fact that the Internet also offers - for the savvy individual who knows where to look - the tasteless and borderline insane. — Dave Barry

The whole world is not worth one soul. — Francis De Sales

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. The young man gives it to the girl with whom he is in love, and, if she does not like it, asks her to return his letters. The older man tries it on his nephew, and alters his will accordingly. The book is a test of character. We can't criticize it, because it is criticizing us. But I must give you one word of warning. When you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are sitting in judgment on my taste, or on the art of Kenneth Grahame. You are merely sitting in judgment on yourself. You may be worthy: I don't know, But it is you who are on trial. — A.A. Milne

Why haven't they killed us yet?"

"Our lives aren't important. For some reason, it's always been about her. — Julie Kagawa

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. — Matthew Broderick