Tongerlo Quotes & Sayings

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. — Bradford Cox

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. — Charlotte Bronte

I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you. — Anne Lamott

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We belong where we are most loved — Srividya Srinivasan

She had never given much thought to the devil for she felt that religion was essentially for those people who didn't have the brains to avoid evil without it. — Flannery O'Connor

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It seems to me that I grew younger daily with each adult habit that I acquired. I had lived a lonely childhood and a boyhood straitened by war and overshadowed by bereavement; to the hard bachelordom of English adolescence, the premature dignity and authority of the school system, I had added a sad and grim strain of my own. Now, that summer term with Sebastian, it seemed as though I was being given a brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood, and though its toys were silk shirts and liqueurs and cigars and its naughtiness high in the catalogue of grave sins, there was something of nursery freshness about us that fell little short of the joy of innocence. — Evelyn Waugh

I like people to match my energy. — Elizabeth Hurley

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. — R. Buckminster Fuller