Brueggemann Praying Quotes

#1. According to my experience, the principal characteristic of genuine happiness is peace: inner peace.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

Andrew Sean Greer

#3. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Albert Einstein

#4. Is in vain that doctors prolong life if we spend the extra time being anxious to live still longer.

Alan W. Watts

#5. They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'.

Ivo Andric

#6. The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).

Lao-Tzu

#7. Set loose, a child would run down the paths, scramble up the rocks, lie on the earth. Grown-ups more often let their minds do the running, scrambling, and lying, but the emotion is shared. It feels good to be here.

David Miller

#8. You bring to a painting your own experience.

Jacob Lawrence

#9. We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.

Corey Ann Haydu

#10. It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau