Skoczen Quotes & Sayings

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice. — Iyanla Vanzant

But you always have a choice. You can choose to find comfort and solace in God. You can choose to be brave and compassionate. And you can choose to find beauty and happiness wherever they present themselves. — Kiersten White

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world. — Sam Harris

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all. — George W. Bush

Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.
~pages 286-287 — Haruki Murakami

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich. — Felix Dennis

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. — Augusten Burroughs

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. — Tavis Smiley

I will not go on a blind date. — Jordana Brewster

When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I do. Whether it's leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan - if I'm convinced it's fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief. — Laura Ingraham

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker

It is a lovely language,but it takes a very long time to say anything in it,unless it is worth taking a long time to say,and to listen to.
-Treebeard/Fangorn — J.R.R. Tolkien

Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change. — David Amerland