Virgile Bayle Quotes & Sayings

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter — Johann Georg Hamann

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God. — Elizabeth Gilbert

After my parents died, it took me months before I could carry on a conversation with someone who had not known them, who expected me to be young and sparkling and untouched by grief. — Jennifer Egan

Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart. — Melody Beattie

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. — William F. Buckley Jr.

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government. — Alexander Bickel

The standard cosmological theory
an expanding universe
does not really solve the problem of God. It simply makes it more problematical. Once the creator-creation model is discarded as primitive mythology, we still have not touched the ancient conundrum, ex nihilo nihil fit: nothing comes from nothing, and the "axiom" that "Nothing is unstable' rivals in scholastic absurdity anything Aquinas may have said eight hundred years ago and can only be postulated given the reality of something, whereby it becomes a self-evident and unarguable tautology. — R. Joseph Hoffmann

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. — Martha N. Beck

It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt ... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it. So when we guilt businessmen into giving, it's not in their self-interest. — Yaron Brook