Vreli Kosteni Quotes & Sayings

If [things] seem to have a relative unreality ... it is because they are potential and not actual; they are unfulfilled ... They have it in them to be more real than they are. — G.K. Chesterton

We must concern ourselves not with what is beyond life, or what is life, or what is the purpose of life, but rather with the understanding of this complex existence of everyday life, because that is the foundation upon which we must build. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die. — Salman Rushdie

I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together. — Vanessa Carlton

The longing for paradise is paradise itself. — Khalil Gibran

The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance — Pope Benedict XVI

As concerns the question of the psychological engine that drove Hitler, the conventional interpretation of lusting after power is, in final analysis, the refuge of lack of comprehension."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 27 — Russel H.S. Stolfi

I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be. — Andrew Ripp

I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment. — David Dabydeen

Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver — Dan Wells

The real history never makes the books; — April White