Verhaltener Quotes & Sayings

Control what you can. Influence what you should. Forget the rest. — Todd Stocker

If you work long enough and hard enough to understand yourself, you will come to discover that this vast part of your mind, of which you now have little awareness, contains riches beyond imagination. — M. Scott Peck

Therefore, we propose a rediscovery of Christology that includes a preoccupation with the example and teaching of Jesus for the purposes of emulation by his followers. — Michael Frost

Thoreau wrote, "the mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." This is as true today as it was back then. How many men stand on a balcony and wonder what happened?... He wanted adventure and he got two weeks' vacation. He wanted a mission and he got a lawn that needs mowing. He wanted purpose and he got a cubicle. He wanted a mighty steed and he got a minivan. He wanted a castle and he got a mortgage. He wanted a battle to fight and he got televised sports. He wanted wisdom and he got talking heads on TV. He wanted treasure and he got endless debt. He wanted every part of his life to be wonderful, and here he is... standing on a balcony, in bleak, ruminating hesitation. — Zan Perrion

This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion. — Charles Stross

I have moments, like a guy saying to me on the tube, "You know, you look a lot like Jessie Ware." — Jessie Ware

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that. — Edgar Mitchell

The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda. — Adyashanti

With that, Adam was placed into a deep sleep, his side wounded, and from that open wound was brought forth a soft-glowing bone. — Gene Edwards

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read. — Wendell H. Ford

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue. — Plotinus

You can see a lot just by observing. — Yogi Berra

You have to take a chance sometimes for the person you love. Sometimes you just know that a huge risk is worth it. — Shana Norris

If it doesn't matter, get rid of it.
If you can't get rid of it, it matters. — Banksy