Sheng Yen Lu Quotes

#1. But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#2. Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.

Catherine Lacey

#3. A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Camille Paglia

#4. Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they're so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.

Deb Caletti

#5. It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

Jane Hirshfield

#6. In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

Rex Reed

#7. I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

Minnie Driver

#8. You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.

John Wilson

#9. Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

Don Nickles

#10. It is always the women who propose to us, and not we who propose to the women. Except, of course, in middle-class life. But then the middle classes are not modern.

Oscar Wilde