Mardi Gras Mask Quotes

#1. Know or listen to those who know.

Baltasar Gracian

#2. There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

Billy Collins

#4. This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.

Jeremy Narby

#5. Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

Joseph Alleine

#6. I couldn't stop myself from exploding, but I could at least learn to contain the fallout.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. You should love one another and behave lovingly
because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one
another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Prem Rawat

#8. William James said, 'We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.

Robin S. Sharma

#9. It's your entire story that makes you who you are, not just the happy things" -Beth

Sara Hammel

#10. Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

Paul Schrader

#11. Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just ... accounting.

Iain Banks