Universitas Pennsylvaniensis Quotes & Sayings

When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness. — Nhat Hanh

If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise. — Watchman Nee

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God. — Origen

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe. — Jean Rhys

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school. — Donald Ray Pollock

Animals hold us to what is present: to who we are at the time, not who we've been or how are bank accounts describe us. What's obvious to an animal is not the embellishment that fattens our emotional resumes but what's bedrock and current in us: aggression, fear, insecurity, happiness, or equanimity. Because they have the ability to read our involuntary ticks and scents, we're transparent to them and thus exposed - we're finally ourselves. — Gretel Ehrlich

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends? — Edmund Burke

I desperately want to simply love him - unequivocally and without reservation - the way I did back then ... — Taylor Jenkins Reid

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own. — Vita Sackville-West

He leaned over to kiss the top of my head, and then groaned. I looked at him, puzzled.
"You smell so good in the rain," he explained.
"In a good way, or in a bad way?" I asked cautiously.
He sighed. "Both, always both. — Stephenie Meyer

Mandatory showers had been dropped in the fall, when Lilah Porter protested the archaic practice by staging a sit-in in the gym, where she set up a projector and played the shower scene from Carrie in a continuous loop until the school board caved. — Marlene Perez

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home. — Rick Scott