Saint Pachomius Quotes

#1. Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

Frederick Lenz

#2. If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways.

Esther M. Friesner

#3. Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

J.B. Priestley

#4. There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

Whitey Ford

#5. If one looks at creativity as a resource that we continually draw upon to make something from nothing, then our fear stems from the need to make the nonexistent come into being.

Ed Catmull

#6. When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

Bryant H. McGill

#7. It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.

Pachomius The Great

#8. I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

Anne Waldman

#9. I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

Ziggy Marley

#10. There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.

Stephen Moyer

#11. He told himself he would pretend nothing was wrong, but he couldn't fool himself. He could forgive himself for having done something wrong, even something so immoral, so reckless. Harder to live with would be what would come next: living with the knowledge of what he'd done, but not letting on.

Erin O'Riordan