Youlan Quotes & Sayings

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare. — Leon Uris

Don't quit when you encounter an obstacle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do. — Douglas Coupland

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author. — Martin Amis

...if I do not take my intellectual vocation seriously, putting it before everything else even at the risk of appearing inhuman, then I am also incapable of helping people in more concrete and proximate ways. Conversely, if I am not alert and ready to save people from a conflagration, that is to say, if I do not take my spiritual calling in all earnestness, sacrificing to it all else, even my own life, then I shall be unable to help in rescuing the manuscript. If I do not involve myself in the concrete issues of my time, and if I do not open my house to all the winds of the world, then anything I produce from an ivory tower will be barren and cursed. Yet if I do not shut doors and windows in order to concentrate on this work, then I will not be able to offer anything of value to my neighbors. — Raimon Panikkar