Adalbert Quotes

#1. Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.

Adalbert Stifter

#2. We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more ... imagination.

Wes Adamson

#3. When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day.

Adalbert De Vogue

#4. In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Adalbert Stifter

#5. Fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons.

Adalbert De Vogue

#6. But over time, people can lose their innate ability to fascinate. They acquire layers of boring.

Sally Hogshead

#7. Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

Madeleine Albright

#8. I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

Damien Dempsey

#9. There are secrets in all families, you know.

Jane Austen

#10. My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance which encompassed it even more completely and filled it with a far greater happiness.

Adalbert Stifter

#11. Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.

Adalbert Stifter

#12. Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

Orison Swett Marden

#13. One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.

Adalbert De Vogue

#14. And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun-

Alice Walker

#15. So our definition of manliness, like that of the ancients, is simple: striving for virtue, honor, and excellence in all areas of your life, fulfilling your potential as a man, and being the absolute best brother, friend, husband, father and citizen you can be.

Brett McKay

#16. Eating three times a day means takingon, almost without respite, the work of assimilation.

Adalbert De Vogue

#17. Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don't say so often behave in an even more grossly selfish way.

Adalbert Stifter

#18. Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that now exist; an eternal veil of forgetfulness will lie over them, just as there is now over those things that came before.

Adalbert Stifter

#19. When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.

Adalbert De Vogue

#20. In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.

Adalbert De Vogue

#21. The past was where he lived most confidently, and with the surest sense of knowing who he was - not only as a novelist.

John Irving

#22. Here." He spread his legs wider and patted the floor between them. "You'll be warmer, and I promise I won't grope you or anything."

Yes, because getting groped by a handsome, charming man hours after getting dumped by a workaholic iceberg was such a repulsive notion.

Meg Maguire

#23. Just because you're a god doesn't mean I won't punch you." "Just because you're a guest in my house doesn't mean I won't drown you in the ocean.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#24. There is a lot of growing required.

Stormie O'martian

#25. The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

Adalbert De Vogue