Universidade Do Minho Quotes & Sayings

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence. — Jacques Barzun

The capacity to see and - equally so - blindness are not divisible. The critical faculty of the human mind is one: To believe one can be seeing internally but blind as far as the outside world is concerned is like saying that the light of a candle gives light only in one direction and not in all. The light of the candle is reason's capacity for critical, penetrating, uncovering thought. — Erich Fromm

I love that feeling, when music rumbles in your chest and soaks all the way through, like it's a part of you. — Jenny B. Jones

Every human thought, word, or deed is based on fear or love. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, reveals, shares, heals. You have free choice about which of these to select. — Neale Donald Walsch

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. — Benjamin Franklin

It is the business of future to be dangerous ... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. — Alfred North Whitehead

Christina flashed a smile. "I shall ask a million questions of your purply-eyed so that Diana doesn't think about you and Julian or whether you might be at Mr. Rook's."
I'm not sure he's a mister," Emma said, stifling a yawn. "I've never heard anyone call him anything but 'hey, Rook' or sometimes 'that bastard. — Cassandra Clare

I was never fond of this boyfriend-girlfriend game. Outsmart me, make me feel challenged and I can walk with you forever but to act like love smitten puppies in love is not my thing. — Parul Wadhwa

If God is compassionate, then certainly those who love God should be compassionate as well. — Henri J.M. Nouwen