Tajuddin Ahmad Quotes & Sayings

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay. — Kathleen Norris

It's having hope which requires having guts. So wear your heart on your sleeve and if it bleeds, let it, so long as it still beats. — Juhani Aho

This was it. This was what she had longed for throughout the lonely years of her girlhood.
Suddenly she felt lonelier than she had ever felt.
And so excited she could barely breathe,
Tresham stepped up beside her, drew her arm through his again, set his free hand lightly over hers, and said not a word.
She had never loved him more. — Mary Balogh

I arrived to work on the wrong foot. I was jumpy and agitated, constantly watching the doors. A loud fart would have sent me skyrocketing into orbit. — J.A. Saare

She waited until she finished todo it, resisting the urge to play with herself. But dammit, when they got home she'd wank herself like a four-fisted monkey. — Tymber Dalton

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future. — Diana DeGette

Problems can only exist if they have your attention. — Michael Beckwith

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about. — Lesley Gore

Without free will, sinners and criminals would be nothing more than poorly calibrated clockwork, — Sam Harris

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through. — Jenni Schaefer

I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them. I was drunk on greed when I encountered this motherlode of utterly fascinating narratives that time's great river washed up on its banks for me to just scavenge, and not even rub clean, just repurpose and take credit for. It was kind of one of those weird dreams that where you keep finding free money. — Guy Maddin

If you want your voice to be heard, speak from your heart. — Wes Fesler