Vassana Williams Quotes & Sayings

I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger. — Edgar Meyer

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue. — Oscar Wilde

It was a simple account of an incident from his childhood. At the time I recall that I wondered why he had written it down. He obviously remembered it clearly; why bother to record it on paper? Only later was I to learn from my own obsessive journaling of my dreams that sometimes the best way to understand something is to write it down."
p. 355 — Robin Hobb

I refuse to live my life in fear ... — Fela Kuti

But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last. — Iris Murdoch

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? — Ernest Hemingway,

What do we do in the dark night? We do nothing. We wait. We remember that we are not God. We hold on. We ask for help. We do less. We resign from things, we rest more, we stop going to church, we ask somebody else to pray because we can't. We let go of our need to hurry through it. You can't run in the dark. — John Ortberg

Desire attained is not desire,
But as the cinders of the fire. — Walter Raleigh

I went into the gas station, said, Fill 'er up, Harry. The guy said, Regular? I said, No, put on a gorrila suit and dance like a fairy. — Emo Philips

How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound. — Curtis Sittenfeld