Optina 500 Quotes

#1. Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.

Bryant McGill

#2. Oh yes, I want to play with 'Samson'. Come to Delilah.

Sunny

#3. To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

James Horner

#4. If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

James Allen

#6. Har-ki-doon was situated on the northeast end of the Tons River Valley in Uttaranchal, India. A stunning piece of highland at the confluence of a trio of glaciers, it displayed in every direction the magnificence of the Himalayan Mountains -

Falguni Kothari

#7. In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity - and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top.

James Baldwin

#8. It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.

Kate Jacobs

#9. No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

Charles R. Morris