Essman Island Quotes

#1. Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Mark Buchanan

#2. In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

Shana Alexander

#3. Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. sublimity than the aspect of this coast, as it is

William H. Prescott

#5. Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Stephen Levine

#6. Comparison is the thief of happiness.

Brene Brown

#7. For collaboration to be effective; when we come together we must put aside our interests and agendas, and unite.

J.A. Perez

#8. I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Mario Benedetti

#9. Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. *

Stephen R. Covey

#10. 156 : Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return":-

Anonymous

#11. Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt.

Ilona Andrews

#12. Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

Gustave Flaubert

#14. If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

Austin O'Malley

#15. There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

Hosea Ballou