Warung Umat Quotes & Sayings

Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing. — Will Arnett

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines. — Al Smith

Through this process, wisdom clarifies the way that the mind manufacturers emotion and karma, and finally penetrates the illusion of self. Just as though one were investigating how a magician created his display of illusions, one studies mental events to understand the conditions and causes that support the operation of ordinary self-oriented experience. One first understands the root emotions as the basis for samsara, then studies the workings of the associated emotions and how each one manifests a distinctive character. Gradually, the manner in which the self supports emotion and emotion supports the sense of self becomes clear. Self and emotion are seen as relying on and reinforcing each other's existence. Understanding how this collusion gives rise to the whole range of samsaric delusion liberates the mind from all forms of deception. — Dharma Publishing

CHAPTER XLIII WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE ARTFUL DODGER GOT INTO TROUBLE — Charles Dickens

To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep. — Orhan Pamuk

(A dervish was tempted by the devil to cease calling upon Allah, on the ground that Allah never answered, "Here am I." The Prophet Khadir appeared to him in a vision with a message from God.) Was it not I who summoned thee to my service? Was it not I who made thee busy with my name? Thy calling "Allah!"was my "Here am I." Jalal-uddin Rumi — Aldous Huxley

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. — Francis Bacon

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days. — James Berardinelli

What I've got to offer you is your life.'
'It's not yours to offer ... — Ayn Rand

In order to be something, you must do something. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ... — Ouida