E. P. Sanders Quotes

You can't improve anything if you don't first know what needs to be improved.

The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.

The hardest situation is when the individuals desperate “to cut off your wings” are your closest family members whom you can’t escape dealing with.

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

Climbing your personal Everest, do your best to make sure it won’t end up being your Calvary.

For things to be right on the outside, they first have to be right on the inside.

Making a decision to live a life of excellence, and living a life of excellence are two difference things.

Every time I gaze at stars above, I feel small, big, infinite and connected all at the same time, and tonight on the Amazon is no different.

I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I’m at home rather than visiting—as though I’m tapped into some eternal omnipresence beyond the transient physical forms.

I sit up and stare with eyes closed, perceiving the infinity of this dimension, so grateful to experience this, comfortable with the idea of this journey either ending shortly or continuing forever.

Dan explains the trip’s itinerary, which includes trekking through the jungle, boating down the Amazon River, and to my surprise, three Ayahuasca ceremonies.

The best advice is to be yourself, but to be your best self.

It is not really wise to make too many assumptions when you don’t yet have all the facts to do so. You may believe your conclusions are logical, while they may turn out to be totally wrong.

Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.' <3

Excellence is a way of life.

Your present is what you live, but your past is what you carry.

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.

Your loyalty to friends and family should have no limit, although it may be expressed in ways that others cannot understand.

All respect is earned, even self-respect.

You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.

Only an honorable victory is a true victory.

Respect is both earned and lost.

If your thoughts are not right, your actions won't be right.

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

If I can't talk smart I'll just sit back and listen.

Read my book and you shall know thee

Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie.

Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone.

Atheism and traditional institutions of the Church are the polar sides of the same marasmus: either of them is badly lacking the truth.

Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

Best friends are literal and figurative life savers that we should thank as often as possible for rescuing us from ourselves.

It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.

And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.

The school takes its coloring from yourown attitude,

The petty worries of theschool room must not be carried to your home or boarding place.

The first thing, of course, is to find a vacancy, a place where a teacher iswanted, and the second thing is to make the school officials believe you are just the person forthe position.

Generate happy moments. . . make miracles happen. Love is a miracle too.

When you react, you let other control you. When you respond, you are in control.

Like most people on the planet I have experienced moments when a friend’s, or just a stranger’s, warm cheering up was like a gulp of oxygen essential for survival.

What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?

John Andrew Holmes, “No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.

If you are prepared, ” he told his players, “you will be confident, and will do the job.

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There is no such thing as a fair fight.

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

If you don’t write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.

The closest to my heart is not just one book - it’s the whole series of novels, Indigo Diaries. The first volume, “Gods’ Food, ” is already available in English.

Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life.

The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.