Trataramos Quotes & Sayings

The axe is the healthiest implement that man ever handled, and is especially so for habitual writers and other sedentary workers, whose shoulders it throws back, expanding their chests, and opening their lungs. If every youth and man, from fifteen to fifty years old, could wield an axe two hours per day, dyspepsia would vanish from the earth, and rheumatism become decidedly scarce. I am a poor chopper, yet the axe is my doctor and delight. Its used gives the mind just enough occupation to prevents its falling into revery or absorbing trains of thought, while every muscle in the body receives sufficient, yet not exhausting, exercise. — Horace Greeley

Life can grow sweeter and more rewarding as we grow older if we possess the presence of Christ. Sunsets are always glorious. It is Christ who adds colors, glory, and beauty to man's sunsets. — Billy Graham

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. — Walter Cronkite

I'm helped by a gentle notion from Buddhist psychology, that there are "near enemies" to every great virtue - reactions that come from a place of care in us, and which feel right and good, but which subtly take us down an ineffectual path. Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can't possibly make a difference. The wise Buddhist anthropologist and teacher Roshi Joan Halifax calls this a "pathological empathy" of our age. In the face of magnitudes of pain in the world that come to us in pictures immediate and raw, many of us care too much and see no evident place for our care to go. But compassion goes about finding the work that can be done. Love can't help but stay present — Krista Tippett

I'm just wondering if it's a good thing to resign yourself quite this much to small steps when you could take some big ones. — Veronica Roth

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done. — Amelia Earhart

Amy stops, and turns to him. "Are you Hindu?" Bohdi shrugs. "Who knows what I was? But cow is delicious." He grins. — C. Gockel

The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future. — Joyce Carol Oates

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on ... mass murderers ... — George Clooney