Batong Bahay Quotes

#1. That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

Saint John Chrysostom

#2. The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of their strings and come back to me" from the poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

Jay Woodman

#3. We often what to be a success but we don't know why.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Listen ... You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.

David Gemmell

#5. I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

Donald Miller

#6. Gabriel smiled and his thumb grazed her cheek. She thought for a terrifying moment that he was going to kiss her

A.J. Flowers

#7. There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

Muhammad Yunus

#8. While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.

Robert Genn

#9. Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Alain De Botton

#10. I am sure of nothing except that to believe you know where you are headed is not to understand where one is at the moment.

Scott Frost

#11. The sorcery is not confined to the story; it's matched by the magic of Austin's literary craftsmanship.
--Leland Dirks, author of Angelo's Journey

R.L. Austin

#12. Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#13. I would buy Barbies and take them apart and then remake their looks. I used them for hairstyling. It was a whole process. I had a lot of dolls - like 150.

Jason Wu