Yarek Kowalik Quotes & Sayings

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen. — Sunday Adelaja

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him. — Jeff VanderMeer

Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees anyone whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den. — Daniel Keyes

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them. — Lars Von Trier

We have been called from darkness into the light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. — Jim Butcher

A little lifting up of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even though made on the march and with sword in hand, are prayers which, short though they may be, are nevertheless very pleasing to God, and far from making a soldier lose his courage on the most dangerous occasions, bolster it. Let him then think of God as much as possible so that he will gradually become accustomed to this little but holy exercise; no one will notice it and nothing is easier than to repeat often during the day these little acts of interior adoration. — Brother Lawrence

Love was something that did much to change a person. It brought joy as it brought suffering, and in turn brought about those moments that defined one's character. — Renee Ahdieh

The human race is homesick for Eden, which only two humans have ever known. We spend our lives chasing peaceful delight, following dead ends or cul-de-sacs in pursuit of home. We know intuitively that we've wandered. What we don't know is how to return. Our lives are largely the story of the often wrong and occasionally right turns we take in our attempts to get home to Happiness with a capital H - God himself. — Randy Alcorn

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. — William James

There would always be a void. And my shoulders shook with relief that I didn't have to fill it. — Amanda Sun

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal. — Thomas Carlyle