Milena Jesenska Quotes

#1. The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

John Ortberg

#2. Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.

Peter Mullan

#4. The golden flower blooms if you are ready to die to the past, if you are utterly in the present. And you can be utterly in the present only if you have no desire to be anywhere else in the future, if you have no desire to be somebody else. This I call enlightenment.

Osho

#5. Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.

Umar

#6. I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.

Peter Singer

#8. Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Nina Fedoroff