Smbtree Quotes & Sayings

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. — Freda Adler

When you go to an Indian temple, it is just to behold an energy form. You want to take an imprint of the Divine within yourself. — Sadghuru

You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart. — Daisaku Ikeda

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. — Kevin Kelly

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us (p. 32). — Edith Schaeffer

There are only so many of us born at a time and we are thrown into the world to find each other, to find the other ones who don't think you're strange, who understand your jokes, your smile, the way you talk.
There are only so many of us born at a time and we only have so long to find each other before we die.
But we have to try. — Pleasefindthis

With growing exploitation, until they fought slavery to save democracy and then lost democracy in a new and vaster slavery. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I need to offer a sacred water sacrifice at the porcelain altar. — Pawan Mishra

I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that. — Fredrik Bond

Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture. — Harvey Dunn

It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system. — Clarence Darrow

You don't like my dress?"
The vines of Reed's couture streched toward the tutor, the rose's petal-mouths chomping.
It isn't that, Your Imperial Viciousness. The earthlings will not understand you. Not understanding you, they will be frightened and send their petty authorities to apprehend you."
Ha!"
Of course they'll fail. That isn't the point. But you'll have to wast engery dealing with them instead of concentrating on your niece's destruction. I doubt that the way to achive your aim is to spread your strength across many fronts so that, when it's time to battle Alyss, you many not be at the peak of your powers. Your niece, I gather, shouldn't be underestimated."
Vollrath hadn't graduated from the Tutor Corps for nothing. "I don't like when sound reasoning counters my wishes," Redd hissed. — Frank Beddor

What if that was the fate of all of us, turned into the very basest of creatures, the very essence of evil? — Alexander Gordon Smith

The reward of patience Is patience. — Saint Augustine

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage. — Paulo Coelho