Ajahn Maha Boowa Quotes

#1. Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.

Richard Steele

#2. Distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest.

Virginia Woolf

#3. So what will happen now?" / "Same thing as happens every other time you've come here," said the old woman. "You go home." / "I don't know where that is anymore," I told them. / "You always say that," said Ginnie.

Neil Gaiman

#4. The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

Mortimer J. Adler

#5. The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Andrei Codrescu

#6. Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. It's only with age I have learned solely to listen to things I want to hear.

Kate Morton

#8. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who

Alan Lightman

#9. I got to the threshold and looked up and figured I could not do it, but also knew the only way through was up.

John Green

#10. What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?

Jeffrey A. White

#11. So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

Peter Westbrook