Nikolay Gumilev Quotes

#1. Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that's better than the one you live in.

Ryan Henry Ward Artist

#2. At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.

Howard W. Hunter

#3. Avoid anger; embrace kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#4. A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

Ang Lee

#6. From that day forward, I saw more beauty in the world than I had ever seen before. I cherished every moment, found joy in the tiniest pleasures, for I understood this amazing gift called life.

Julianne MacLean

#7. Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.

John Piper

#8. So age after age - will it be soon, O Lord? -

Beneath the scalpel of nature and art,

Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself,

Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.

("The Sixth Sense")

Nikolay S. Gumilev

#9. If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.

Daniel Gillies

#10. You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

Martin O'Malley