Aldeas Sos Quotes

#1. This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

Gautama Buddha

#2. For Jesus, the question wasn't, "How do I get into heaven?" but "How do I bring heaven here?

Rob Bell

#3. In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.

Jennifer McMahon

#4. Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#5. Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

Frederick Lenz

#6. From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

Bernard Arnault

#7. Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Elias Canetti

#8. We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.

#9. I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

Afrika Bambaataa

#10. Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

Dallas Willard

#11. Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.

Sam Weller

#12. ...books may speak, but they do not listen.

David Mitchell

#13. Time tells me what I am.
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

Mark Strand