Miroslav Penkov Quotes

#1. Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Donald A. Norman

#2. Your burden is of false self-identifications - abandon them all.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#3. At seventy-one you can't expect to hear a story, any story, and take it as it is. At my age a story stirs up a vortex that sucks into its eye more stories, and spits out still more. I must remember what I must.

Miroslav Penkov

#4. I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.

Cassandra Clare

#5. The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. It's yad that propels us, like a motor, onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger, but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered.

Miroslav Penkov

#7. What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Agnes Martin

#8. My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'

Benjamin Booker

#9. Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.

Vann Chow

#10. Love is the only future God offers.

Victor Hugo

#11. If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

Vince Lombardi

#12. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

Michael Anti