Triodos Bank Quotes & Sayings

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment. — Pema Chodron

Doesn't Eva have warm and eager flesh?"

"Of course. But the sweet thrill wanes somewhat when eagerness is so easily elicited. The succulent bliss of the moment is lost." Johnny could've written a whole song around that one sentence, so I committed it to memory. — Linda Robertson

Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices — Ayn Rand

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes. — Alice Walker

Kick the crutch out from under your excuses — Lorii Myers

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world. — Diana Nyad

19And he did not permit him but said to him, "Go home to your friends and f tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you." 20And he went away and began to proclaim in g the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled. — Anonymous

Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest, " You got to figt it with your heart. — Charles Martin

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade. — Lady Gregory

Couples with children may argue more, the author suggests, because children are a reminder of just how crucial our choices are. — Jennifer Senior

Philosophers who have denied that there are any innate ideas probably meant only that all ideas were copies of our impressions. [W]hat is meant by 'innate'? If 'innate' is equivalent to 'natural', then all the perceptions and ideas of the mind must be granted to be innate or natural, in whatever sense we take the latter word, whether in opposition to what is uncommon, what is artificial, or what is miraculous. If innate means 'contemporary with our birth', the dispute seems to be frivolous - there is no point in enquiring when thinking begins, whether before, at, or after our birth. — David Hume

We originally meant each to write an excursionary "thriller:" a space-journey [his] and a timejourney (mine) each discovering Myth. — C.S. Lewis

Greed is permanent slavery — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus

Memories, James thought, thank God we have them. They help us to recall what's long gone, and we can live again in the past with those we once loved. — Barbara Taylor Bradford