Vienuolynas Quotes & Sayings

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself. — J. Paul Getty

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more. — Rip Torn

What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master. — Anthony De Mello

Julian sucks in a deep breath. Then, all in a rush, he says, "I love you." Just as I blurt out, "Don't say it." There's another beat of silence. Julian looks startled. "What?" he finally says. I wish I could take the words back. I wish I could say I love you, too. But the words are caught in the cage of my chest. "Julian, you have to know how much I care about you." I try to touch him, and he jerks backward. "Don't," he says. — Lauren Oliver

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five. — Charles Barkley

No one who survives to speak
new language, has avoided this:
the cutting-away of an old force that held her
rooted to an old ground
the pitch of utter loneliness
where she herself and all creation
seem equally dispersed, weightless, her being a cry
to which no echo comes or can ever come.
But in fact we were always like this,
rootless, dismembered: knowing it makes the difference.
Birth stripped our birthright from us,
tore us from a woman, from women, from ourselves
so early on
and the whole chorus throbbing at our ears
like midges, told us nothing, nothing
of origins, nothing we needed
to know, nothing that could re-member us. — Adrienne Rich

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business. — Tom Rath

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. — Samuel Horsley

I only ask for information. — Charles Dickens

Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites ... There is a war between good and — Michael O'Brien

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well. — Alan Shearer

It is useful to remember the classical Greeks' attitude to moral failure: in their view it is like taking aim at a target, and missing; it is a bad shot; what you must do is aim again, and do better. In other moral regimes failure is a blemish, a stain that remains, culpable and in need of grace or forgiveness from an outside source. In the classical view, the remedy and improvement is as much the individual's responsibility as the mistake was in the first place. — A.C. Grayling

Someone was saying yesterday, This world
began in time, but eternity will inherit it. — Rumi