Ysteries Quotes & Sayings

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with." — Nhat Hanh

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality. — Edmund Burke

I wanted to be a barrister for a long time. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court. — John Roberts

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. — Reinhold Niebuhr

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others. — Christopher Moore

Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes your regular illusion. — Richelle E. Goodrich

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience. — Dennis McFadden

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you. — Jason Schwartzman

Stand warned, lovelies. Initiates are encouraged to teach you cruelty. An you should thank them for it. For to understand cruelty is to know strength. — Veronica Wolff

This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable. — Angie Zelter

Ysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. — Fred Saberhagen

Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary. — Roberto Bolano