Toraldo Cafe Quotes & Sayings

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace. — Josephine Baker

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none. — Marsden Wagner

I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming. — Ray Lewis

What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another. — J.C. Ryle

You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality. — Gary Zukav

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place. — J. B. Smoove

Helen was beautiful in the way a supercomputer was beautiful: sleek with elegant but utilitarian styling, full of top-notch technological know-how, far too expensive for most people to possess. — Maggie Stiefvater

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. — Jane Rule

How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do. — Alex Shakar

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye. — Saadi

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved. — Chogyam Trungpa

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit. — John Catsimatidis

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge. — Thomas C. Foster