Quotes About Metanoia

#1. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism.

Will Durant

#2. What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets ...

Ernestine Rose

#3. Archie.'
'Yes, sir.'
'Do I ever intrude in your private affairs?'
'Yes, sir. Frequently. But you think you don't, so go right ahead.

Rex Stout

#4. It was like a scene straight out of Beauty and the Beast. I kept waiting for a teapot to start singing.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.

Alyson Noel

#6. I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.

Adriana Barraza

#7. The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen)

Dannye Williamsen

#8. Repentance (from the Greek metanoia) is the mind itself changed and transformed. It is the supernatural conquering the natural. It is the assumption of the spirit of Christ according to the words of St. Paul: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ

John A. Kane

#9. The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.
(on being 36 yrs old)

C. G. Jung

#10. The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them

Frank Eberhart

#11. man is born to love; he is only alive when he is in the presence of a woman he loves or should love. I

Elie Wiesel

#12. Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

Jorge Luis Borges

#13. The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

Michel De Certeau

#14. There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#15. They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you.

Fannie Flagg

#16. Look at me, you chatty bitch, I'm a goddamn pinata! Fuck off and let me sleep before I puke up a kidney on your slutty leather pants!

Jesse Hajicek

#17. Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Richard Dawkins

#18. Adrian: "I've made my position clear, Mr. Skerry. It's not my job to protect people from their own stupidity."
Resonator: "And I like to give hand granades to babies ... let's be friends!?

Jesse Hajicek

#19. All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams

#20. So,would you say I'm closer to a zombie or a vampire? I gotta know - are my parts going to rot and fall off, or am I forever frozen in youthful perfection?

Rachel Vincent