St Raymond Nonnatus Quotes & Sayings

As Gandhi wisely points out, even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally nourishes our own hearts as well. It is not a question of who is healed first. When we attend to ourselves with compassion and mercy, more healing is made available for others. And when we serve others with an open and generous heart, great healing comes to us. — Wayne Muller

Cut," the journalist says, turning into the camera. "Just cut. The Babble
Brigade has started up again."
The soundtrack now consists of a thousand people speaking in tongues under the
high-pitched, shit-eating chuckles of L. Bob Rife.
"This is the miracle of tongues," Rife shouts above the tumult. "I can
understand every word these people are saying. Can you, brother? — Neal Stephenson

I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes. — Eliot Spitzer

If you have a problem with me, it is OK, because Mullah Omar does too. — M.F. Moonzajer

Although generally our sight diminishes with age; I submit that our vision improves. The older we get, the more clearly we see our life's decisions played out to their logical conclusions. — David C. Maloney

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that's always in relation to what else is happening at the moment. But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive. — Alan Palomo

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another. — Charlie Trotter

There are spiritual patterns at work in the universe and these announce themselves with impressive regularity wherever human minds and hearts attempt to attune themselves to the cosmos in all its radiant dimensions. — Ken Wilber

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. — James Shirley

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back. Never throw a map away. — David Mitchell

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced — Gilbert K. Chesterton