Suwardi Widjaja Quotes & Sayings

people come into your life for different reasons. Some are forever, but those are rare. Most people are seasonal - they're with you for a reason and when that reason is fulfilled, they move on. — Erin Nicholas

Sanctification begins in regeneration. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial. — Igor Levit

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking

When J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy was published in the 1950s, a woman named Rhona Beare wrote Tolkien and asked him about the chapter in which the Ring of Power is destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. When the ring is melted, the Dark Lord's entire power collapses and melts away with it. She found it inexplicable that this unassailable, overwhelming power would be wiped out by the erasure of such a little object. Tolkien replied that at the heart of the plot was the Dark Lord's effort to magnify and maximize his power by placing so much of it in the ring. He wrote: "The Ring of Sauron is only one of the various mythical treatments of the placing of one's life, or power, in some external object, which is thus exposed to capture or destruction with disastrous results to oneself. — Timothy J. Keller

He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. — William Shakespeare

The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs escape through the opening, taking flight. It's as if someone has dumped rubies from heaven. Soon they will land on the plants in search of bollworm eggs. But right now they are magic-red ribbons flying over our heads, weaving against the pink sky, dancing up there with Mozart. — Kimberly Willis Holt

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. — Samuel Gompers

The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share. — Jack Dorsey

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is. — Don Johnson

The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire. — Thomm Quackenbush