First Penance Quotes

#1. You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

Vincent De Paul

#2. Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

Lyle Lovett

#3. In future, you'll laugh at yourself on some things you do now.

Toba Beta

#4. Be mindful of the link between action and outcome. Ask yourself: If I repeat today's action 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

Guideposts Books

#5. Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present for each other as best we can be.

Anne Lamott

#6. The gods frowned upon wastrels. Roland had been raised, first by his father and then by Cort, his greatest teacher, to believe this, and so he still believed. Those gods might not punish at once, but sooner or later the penance would be paid. And the longer the wait, the greater the weight.

Stephen King

#7. I don't mind dating younger men now.

Jackee Harry

#8. A true initiation never ends.

Robert Anton Wilson

#9. I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

Rebecca Wells

#10. I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

John Kennedy Toole