A Quotes
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“A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.
A foolish sage is one who forgets this.
Remember, or come full circle.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“A sage is a student though a master.”
“A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.”
“A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love.”
“A sage's lowest wisdom surpasses a scholar's highest intelligence.”
“A sage's lowest wisdom surpasses a scholar's highest wisdom.”
“A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.”
Source: Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters
“A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.”
“A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.”
Source: Wanderer
“A sailing vessel on the Rhine! My imagination took wings. If, instead of this swiftly flowing river, all of Alsace were a lake, we would have sailing boats and great steamers. Then Basel would be a port; it would be almost as good as living by the sea. Then everything would be different, and we would live in another time and in another world.”
Source: Memories Dreams Reflections
“A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.”
“A sailor is distinguished by the number of storms he has overcome.”
“A sailor is distinguished by the number of storms he has overcome.
A warrior is distinguished by the number of opponents he has conquered.
A doctor is distinguished by the number of patients he has healed.
A preacher is distinguished by the number of sermons he has delivered.
A ruler is distinguished by the number of lives he has improved.
A celebrity is distinguished by the number of hearts he has impressed.
A policeman is distinguished by the number of criminals he has arrested.
A teacher is distinguished by the number of students he has graduated.
An athlete is distinguished by the number of competitions he has won.
An author is distinguished by the number of books he has penned.
An artist is distinguished by the number of portraits he has painted.
An architect is distinguished by the number of buildings he has designed.
A sculptor is distinguished by the number of statues he has fashioned.
A musician is distinguished by the number of songs he has composed.
A lawyer is distinguished by the number of cases he was won.
A scientist is distinguished by the number of discoveries he has made.
A priest is distinguished by the number of souls he has saved.
A guru is distinguished by the number of schools he has established.”
“A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.”
“A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.”
“A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap
And munched and munched and munched. "Give me," quoth I.
"Aroint thee, witch," the rump-fed runnion cries.”
Source: Macbeth
“A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.”
Source: The Long Way
“A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“A saint abroad, and a devil at home.”
Source: The Pilgrim ́s Progress
“A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.”
Source: Les Misérables
“A saint belongs to all humanity.”
“A saint has control over his anger and itches.”
Source: Saint Richard Parker
“A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.”
“A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.”
“A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.”
“A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.”
“A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint”
“A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.”
“A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!”
“A saint is a sinner who never gave up.”
Source: The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda
“A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is higher than anyone else in the world. A saint is the real mountain climber. A saint is also lower than anyone else in the world. As with water, he flows to the lowest places - like Calcutta.”
“A saint is good when nobody is looking.”
“A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.”
Source: Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call
“A saint is not a person who does not sin; but a sinner who never stops doing good”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.”
Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…
“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.”
“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.”
“A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.”
Source: Lent With Evelyn Underhill
“A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.”
“A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.”
“A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.”
“A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.”
“A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“A saint? Tanner Stone was the anti-Christ.”
Source: Playing by Her Rules
“A salad is not a meal, it is a style.”
“A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.”
“A salaried job trains us to be "right" all the time and induces an entitlement mentality. This is because we get paid the same amount no matter what work we are producing, and we begin to see this is fair and right, and we begin being trained to think we are right all the time. When we become salespeople and marketers, we have to leave all of that behind.”