Vitalista Quotes & Sayings

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story? — Yann Martel

Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other. — Francisco Pizarro

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. — Nancy Mitford

But there was something about the new house that made Bruno think that no one ever laughed there; that there was nothing to laugh at and nothing to be happy about. — John Boyne

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text. — Pat Buchanan

Indeed, if we commit to placing Jesus firmly within the social, religious, and political context of the era in which he lived - an era marked by the slow burn of a revolt against Rome that would forever transform the faith and practice of Judaism - then, in some ways, his biography writes itself. — Reza Aslan

(By the way, I would not recommend stuffing your pillow with vulture feathers. They're not very comfy.) — Rick Riordan

So much, then, for the "mystery" of how Muslim culture was somehow lost or left behind. The notion that in the medieval era Islamic culture was advanced well beyond Europe is as much an illusion as recent ones about an "Arab Spring." The Islamic world was backward then, and so it remains. — Rodney Stark