Gurgel Tocantins Quotes

#1. .. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#2. He says he thanks every star the we existed on the same clestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man made throughaway for intersecting dreams.

Emma Forrest

#3. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Chinua Achebe

#4. Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Whatever Latin America sells - raw materials or manufactures - its chief export product is really cheap labor.

Eduardo Galeano

#7. They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#8. At a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Anna Quindlen

#9. I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what's familiar.

Vironika Tugaleva

#10. This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and glorifying Christ.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. It's weird for minorities even just to buy tickets to the ballet. We feel like it's not a part of our lives and we're not a part of that world.

Misty Copeland

#12. After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.

Kat Stiles

#13. But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

Nia Long

#14. The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Will Rogers

#15. I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

Alix Kates Shulman