Matthew Kelty Quotes

#1. If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.

Kathleen Norris

#2. I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

Joan Lunden

#3. When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

Kapil Dev

#4. This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

Xenophanes

#5. Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

#6. He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#7. Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.

Dalai Lama

#8. The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an
equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Geraldine Brooks

#10. It is easier to live a lie in peace than to die for the truth. As long as life is good, most of them simply do not care.

Ryk Brown

#11. Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

Henry Watson Fowler

#12. I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

Josh Klinghoffer

#13. Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

Matthew Kelty

#14. Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.

Jean Craighead George

#15. We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Friedrich Schiller

#16. When you're a ball hawk, you should have a mohawk.

Rahim Moore

#17. There are as many versions of a book as there are readers.

Matt Haig