Sonia Nieto Quotes & Sayings

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both. — Kathy Hepinstall

That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you. — Austin O'Malley

From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work. — Anna Louise Strong

Quite a bit of human solidarity has been sacrificed in pursuit of preserving some kind of imagined purity — Eula Biss

The building has settled into itself so that when you walk down the aisle, you can hear it yielding to the burden of your weight. It's a pleasanter sound than an echo would be, an obliging, accommodating sound. You have to be there alone to hear it. Maybe it can't feel the weight of a child. But if it is still standing when you read this, and if you are not half a world away, sometime you might go there alone, just to see what I mean. After a while I did begin to wonder if I liked the church better with no people in it. I know they're planning to pull it down. They're waiting me out, which is kind of them. — Marilynne Robinson

The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced. — Ajahn Chah