Walpola Sri Quotes & Sayings

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray. — Leonard Ravenhill

Don't take anything personally - not even your personal challenges. Living in this way is one of the hallmarks of a true and abiding badass. — Cassius Sparrow

Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything about Grandma Waverley, to be everything she was. But Grandma Waverley must have sensed something in Sydney, a kindred soul, with Sydney's brightness and popularity. She gave Claire the wisdom of her old age, but she gave Sydney the secrets of her youth. — Sarah Addison Allen

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. — Pat Mora

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. — George Orwell

Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad. — Rene Descartes

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics. — Thomas Sowell

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself. — Penelope Mitchell

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible. — Klaus Kinski

Today, we live in a culture that wants physical proof. We need something tangible to touch, to see in order for us to believe. But you don't always have to see to believe. For centuries and up until now, many people are trying to remove God out of this world. Not seeing doesn't mean it is not real. Can we see the air we breathe? Can we touch it? Of course not, we can only feel it. — Dhenn Espiritu