Triremes Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

When I tried to meet some impossible standard for motherhood, tried to earn my way to a weird sort of Proverbs 31 Woman Club, I collapsed in exhaustion and simmering anger, sadness, and failure. This was not life in the Vine, this exhausting job description; this was not the Kingdom of God, let alone a redeemed woman living full. This was the shell of someone trying to measure up, trying to earn through her mothering what God had already freely given. This was someone feeling the weight of unmet expectations from the Church and her own self and the world all at once. — Sarah Bessey

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know. — Gore Vidal

Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at what they do, it just makes you better. — Alexia Fast

The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future. — Chris Weedon

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson

I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path. — Isabel Lucas

Let me end this chapter with an encouraging story. A young man found his way up to the small apartment of Nisargadatta, my old Hindu guru in Bombay, asked him a spiritual question and then left after this one question. One of the regular students then asked, "What will happen to this man? Will he ever become enlightened or will he fall off the path and go back to sleep?" Nisargadatta said, "It's too late for him! He has already begun. Just the fact that he came up here and asked one question about what is his true nature means that that place in him that knows who he really is has started to wake up. Even if it takes a long, long time, there's no turning back. — Jack Kornfield

Strong is on the inside, a root that keeps you standing whatever might hit you. But hard is only on the outside, this shield you put up to keep all the pain on the inside from showing. The soft inside is still there even when you don't let yourself see it. And the shell keeps you safe, but it also keeps the good things from penetrating; love and trust and joy. — Elizabeth Joy Arnold

The vast unfathomable sea
Is but a Notion-unto me. — Lewis Carroll

I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the "you" that is behind the reality of yourself. — Lionel Suggs

Every object holds a story. — A.D. Posey

I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your authority:
To do a great right, do a little wrong. — William Shakespeare