Svauto Quotes & Sayings

Too much concern about physical security and too little concern about spirituality is the hallmark of today's world. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data. — L. Ron Hubbard

For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict. — Mary Faustina Kowalska

Earth fought back and Earth lost. — Pierce Brown

How the hell do you think I feel?" I don't want to end up inside a woman!" He paused. "Well, at least not that way — Karen Chance

This posture of skepticism towards the classics displays a profound misjudg- ment. For the great works of Western culture are remarkable for the dis- tance that they maintained from the norms and orthodoxies that gave birth to them. Only a very shallow reading of Chaucer or Shakespeare would see those writers as endorsing the societies in which they lived, or would over- look the far more important fact that their works hold mankind to the light of moral judgment, and examine, with all the love and all the pity that it calls for, the frailty of human nature. It is precisely the aspiration towards universal truth, towards a God's-eye perspective on the human condition, that is the hallmark of Western culture. — Theodore Dalrymple

Long ago she had given up trying to be deft or profound or anything in the company of people she was not interested in, who didn't thrill her. — Toni Morrison