Solovetsky Monastery Quotes & Sayings

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love. — Ajahn Brahm

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola. — Alan Rickman

Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! — Elizabeth Peters

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special. — Chester Bennington

There are two decisions you need to make after you have accepted Jesus into your life. One: You need to make the decision to get over your past. You will not grow unless you make a conscious decision to get over your past. Two: Once you have made that decision, you need to trust God to help you get over your past ...
You didn't just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren't made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You have to make a decision. — Corallie Buchanan

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school. — Carmen Busquets

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by. — Henry David Thoreau

I should at least die as I had lived - fighting. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence. — Louise Cowan

What's the problem? In a nutshell?"

"I'm a medical specialist. We don't really do nutshells[.] — Andrew Pyper

When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time. — Renae A. Sauter

You can't hate me, Mathilde, when I say no. This is my work. — Lauren Groff

So many people are able to do something in life, but when they compare what they have done to their larger environment, they feel they have not done anything! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them. — Alan King