Toralf Tollefsen Quotes & Sayings

Peace in Mind will make life fine — Sergio Franco

The function of education, then, is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but to be yourself all the time. And this is a most difficult thing to do: whether you are ugly or beautiful, whether you are envious or jealous, always to be what you are, but understand it. To be yourself is very difficult, because you think that what you are is ignoble, and that if you could only change what you are into something noble it would be marvellous; but that never happens. Whereas, if you look at what you actually are and understand it, then in that very understanding there is a transformation. So freedom lies, not in trying to become something different, nor in doing whatever you happen to feel like doing, nor in following the authority of tradition, of your parents, of your guru, but in understanding what you are from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself. — Adam Savage

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. — Ralph G. Neas

problem shared is a problem halved. — Lee Child

The sole case of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room — Blaise Pascal

Something that never happens anywhere at any time. — Charles Bukowski

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel

There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing. — Martha Smith

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology — Zack Love

Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. — Mignon McLaughlin

I like to smile at the men who look mean so they know I believe in their better selves. That makes a difference in the world. This is how you might be able to reform a possible rapist without ever going to psychology school. — Aimee Bender

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting. — Jon Bernthal

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice. — Michael Aston