Tenedos Greek Quotes & Sayings

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant ... — L.M. Montgomery

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear

They have an inherent ability to find hidden order where at first glance things appear chaotic and unconnected. — Truity

In other words, thinking aims at and ends in contemplation, and contemplation is not an activity but a passivity; it is the point where mental activity comes to rest. According to traditions of Christian time, when philosophy had become the handmaiden of theology, thinking became meditation, and meditation again ended in contemplation, a kind of blessed state of the soul where the mind was no longer stretching out to know the truth but, in anticipation of a future state, received it temporarily in intuition. — Hannah Arendt

Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for. — Mike A. Lancaster

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties. — Robert Henri

I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for us becomes increasingly blurry ... As we look at [the martyrs], the mist that sometimes enshrouds first-century Golgotha is burned away, and we see ... the Lord nailed to the cross. — Mark Galli

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop. — Van Jones

I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all. — Russell Howard

Lover, n.
Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always being translated from the French. The tint and taint of illicit, illegitimate affections. Dictionary meaning: a person having a love affair. Impermanent. Unfamilial. Inextricably linked to sex.
I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted lover, and to be loved.
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
When I say, Be my lover, I don't mean, Let's have an affair. I don't mean Sleep with me. I don't mean, Be my secret.
I want us to go back to that root.
I want you to be the one who loves me.
I want to be the one who loves you. — David Levithan

Never let the children cry,
Cause you got to tell Jah, Jah why — Bob Marley