Sufficit Tibi Quotes & Sayings

Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security. — Paul Monette

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. — Gustavo Dudamel

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song. — Hafez

You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill - he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness. But get up, sit down, I beg you. All this, too, is deceitful posturing ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book — Holly Lisle

Snape looked horrified. 'You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?'
'Don't look shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?'
'Lately, only those whom I could not save', said Snape. — J.K. Rowling

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one. — Monica Crowley

For most of us ... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them. — Roy Baumeister

Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living. — Billy Graham

Students didn't much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong link. Recent studies conclude that aggressive behaviors are now often associated with high social status. Psychologists no longer view aggression as a last-resort tactic of social misfits. Now they see aggression as a means toward social success. (This does not, however, mean it is admired.) — Alexandra Robbins

The restaurant was waning, indifferently relaxing its illusion: for the late-comers a private illusion took its place. Their table seemed to stand on their own carpet; they had a sensation of custom, sedateness, of being inside small walls, as though dining at home again after her journey. She told him about her Mount Morris solitary suppers, in the middle of the library, the rim of the tray just not touching the base of the lamp ... the fire behind her back softly falling in on its own ash-no it had not been possible to feel lonely among those feeling things. — Elizabeth Bowen