Slanci Recept Quotes & Sayings

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled. — Fran Lebowitz

The ways of God "Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect."1 Holy Scripture never orders and never counsels us to do the impossible. By these words, then, the Lord Jesus does not command us to accomplish the very works and ways of God, which no one can attain in perfection. But He invites us to model ourselves on them, as much as is possible, by applying ourselves to imitate them. We can do this with the help of grace and we should do so. And as the Bishop John said, nothing is more suitable to man than to imitate his Creator, and to carry out, to the degree that he is able, the will of God. — Thomas Aquinas

Nothing is ever actually invented by the mind. The mind puts things together and constructs false ideas — Jostein Gaarder

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness. — Tara Brach

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too. — Edmund Phelps

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular. — Gautama Buddha

On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies. — Lester Holt

All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will. — Joanna Lumley