Toliko Mi Quotes & Sayings

The tree is only as strong as its roots, and knowledge is the root of power. — Joe Abercrombie

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. — Ian Fleming

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. — John Keats

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed ... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths. — Mercedes Lackey

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! — David Lynch

It is impossible to be far from someone who lives inside your heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things. If we are not vigilant, we drift from God's glorious ambition for our lives, losing sight of anything remotely grand, trading God-instilled passion for an easier and more often traveled road. And if our hearts aren't awakened by majesty, our lives soon shrink into little bits of nothingness. — Louie Giglio

The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world. — Tom Robbins

Sunny, by all the moons, quit feeling sorry for dragons who want to abduct you and sell you off. — Tui T. Sutherland

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it. — John Holdren

The theory is simple.
Every boy, every man, is really
a bit of a golden retriever
or a big chocolate Lab.
Watch any man's eyes
at the bounce of a ball.
His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair,
as a primitive focus
comes to life. — Toby Barlow

You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's so beautiful about it. — Xenobia Bailey

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game. — Albert Einstein

It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul? — Sophy Burnham