Sonnier Parkside Quotes & Sayings

He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence - they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all. And death was a kind of gesture, forever withholding water from the traveler vainly seeking to slake his thirst. But for the others, it was the fatal and tender gesture that erases and denies, smiling at gratitude as at rebellion. — Albert Camus

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true. — Mahatma Gandhi

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary. — Thomas Sowell

Dear Lord," she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen. — Daniel Patterson

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. — Anna Quindlen

It's true that we sometimes require our faith to lean on and provide us with strength and courage, but no more than those who lack faith and lean on the truly feeble power of money. — Robert Palasciano