Pacatae Quotes

#1. In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Ovid

#2. I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It's alive and it's right and it's what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I'm dying, I will be completely fucking alive.

Glenn Rockowitz

#3. Nobody is a cure.

Laure Lacornette

#4. It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Alan Greenspan

#5. Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. The secret is not to "think" about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#7. Think of it ... that in your heart there is an answer to all the things and sights of the world, that everything concerns you, that you ought to know as much about everything as it is possible for man to know.

Hermann Hesse

#8. Of what avail are pedigrees?

Juvenal

#9. I'm able to silence those roars. Turn them into whispers.

K. Webster

#10. My best advice is just to show up and be truthful. Be the kind of friend you are hoping for.

Jen Hatmaker

#11. I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

Hillary Clinton

#12. Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Stendhal