Symanecs Quotes & Sayings

Life with kids is unpredictable. Their propensity to live "in the moment" clashes easily with our "perfect plans. — Jill Savage

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. — Steve Lacy

Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience. — John Sculley

They hate whom they fear. — Quintus Ennius

The problem is that much of what we have learned is harmful to our system because it was learned in childhood, when immediate dependence on others distorted our real needs. Long-standing habitual action feels right. Training a body to be perfect in all the possible forms and configurations of its members changes not only the strength and flexibility of the skeleton and muscles, but makes a profound and beneficial change in the self-image and quality of the direction of the self. — Moshe Feldenkrais

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated. — Peter Sis

I ask you ... to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall ... — Frederick Douglass

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. — Albert Einstein

Perception of the miraculous requires no faith or assumptions. It is simply a matter of paying full and close attention to the givens of life, i.e., to what is so ever-present that it is usually taken for granted. The true wonder of the world is available everywhere, in the minutest parts of our bodies, in the vast expanses of the cosmos, and in the intimate interconnectedness of these and all things ... We are part of a finely balanced ecosystem in which interdependency goes hand-in-hand with individuation. We are all individuals, but we are also parts of a greater whole, united in something vast and beautiful beyond description. — M. Scott Peck

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence. — Paul Claudel