Marc Aurel Best Quotes

#1. God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club.

Gypsy Rose Lee

#2. I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

Dylan Moran

#3. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

V.S. Naipaul

#4. Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#7. I was loved by a team of smart, shrewd, criminally-inclined vigilantes. But I was loved. If I denied that any longer, I was calling them all liars. And if I denied I was worthy of it, I was convincing myself they were delusional and stupid. I wasn't lying to myself anymore. Not about that.

C.D. Reiss

#8. Ideas are like wine. They get better when they have time to mature.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#9. Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

Myrna Ericksen

#10. I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.

Margaret Heffernan

#11. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Richard Dawkins

#12. I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

Stephen Strasburg