Yzaguirre Middle School Quotes & Sayings

Today we have different idols. . . We have trusted in human reason, science, and technology to solve our problems and progress toward a better world and a prosperous life. Yet idolatry brings death. — Craig G. Bartholomew

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopaedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism. — G.K. Chesterton

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence. — James Dickey

You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives. And more - you'll see - you're buying bitterness. — John Steinbeck

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

But instead of feeling safe and secure behind their armed walls they found themselves trapped in the prison they had built with their own fears. — Katie J. Davis

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. — Dogen

CHAOS IS THE MASTER ALL MUST BOW TO IN THE END — Heather R. Blair

When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you. — LeBron James