Barre Inspirational Quotes

Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman.

Quiero esperar en silencio la séptima ola. Si, aquí cuentan la historia indómita de la séptima ola. Las primeras seis son previsibles y equilibradas. Se condicionan unas a otras, no deparan sorpresas. Mantienen la continuidad. Pero, !cuidado con la séptima ola¡ La séptima es imprevisible. Durante mucho tiempo pasa inadvertida, participa en el monótono proceso, se adapta a sus predecesoras. Pero a veces estalla. Siempre ella, siempre la séptima. Porque es despreocupada, inocente, rebelde, barre con todo, lo cambia todo. Para ella no existe el antes, solo el ahora. Y después todo es distinto. ¿Mejor o peor? Eso solo pueden decirlo quienes estuvieron arrastrados por ella, quienes tuvieron el coraje de enfrentarla, de dejarse cautivar...

We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some of us are on superyachts. Some of us have just the one oar.

Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age--a double symbol of hopelessness--became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is impossible for Him.

Reading is an act of radical empathy: turning the page instead of turning away.

يجب على المرء ان يرى فقط كل شىء، أن يرى بالفعل كل شىء، و كأنه لم ير ولم يتعرف على أى شىء قط، يجب فقط الدخول فى أى شىء ببساطة، وسيعرف الأمر فى الحال، و لن يضطر أحد أن يشرح لأحد أى شىء، والإكتمال متوفر فى التكرار

I regularly tell our seminary students that if I happen to visit the church in which one of them serves, I will not ask first, “Is this man a good preacher?” Rather, first of all I will ask the secretaries, office staff, janitors, and cleaners what it is like to work for this pastor. I will ask, “What kind of man is he? Is he a servant? Is he demanding and harsh, or his he patient, kind, and forbearing as a man in authority?” One of our graduates may preach great sermons, but if he is a pain to work for, then you know he will cause major problems in any congregation. Leaders in the church are required by Scripture to set an example in the areas of love, kindness, gentleness, patience, and forbearance before they are appointed to preach, teach, and rule. If we obediently require these attitudes and character traits of our leaders, what will our “new community” look like

Making sensible choices is short-term thinking; they never make for good memories.

Anna took her solace where she always did. The smell of the earth, the touch of the sky held for her a special alchemy, able to turn loneliness into aloneness, and so make it, if not sacred, at least bearable.

Above all this the stars shine. Willem pauses for a moment and feels the world turn as he struggles to pick out the Southern Cross among the interstellar static, He's never seen a sky so big or so bright. It's dizzying and he spins slowly to take it all in...

That, right now, is enough.

I didn’t need to steal his light. He inspired me to create my own.

I think you’re wonderful. You’re the only person I have in this awful, twisted world, and it’s incredibly scary, but if I had to fight my way through this disease of a life with one person by my side, I’m glad it’s with you. You inspire me to be stronger, and I need to be strong.

When we can we do, when we can't we wait

Deux mille agriculteurs qui cassent tout, c'est plus payant que dix mille manifestants qui défilent dans le calme', résumera Alexis Gourvennec. Six décennies plus tard, on ne compte plus les tonnes de pneus et de palettes brûlés sur la voie publique, les hectolitres de lisier répandus devant les préfectures, les kilomètres de routes bloquées, auxquels s'ajoutent des installations ferroviaires sabotées, du mobilier urbain saccagé, des véhicules de police détériorés à coups de barre de fer, des motos de gendarmes incendiées, des voitures de pompiers endommagées, des porcelets pendus devant les grilles de bâtiments officiels, des glissières de sécurité arrachées, des portiques écotaxe 'démontés', des sous-préfectures et des hôtels des impôts mis à sac, des bureaux d'élus 'visités', des gendarmes séquestrés, des militaires et des sapeurs-pompiers malmenés, des carcasses d'animaux calcinées devant une préfecture, un camion espagnol transportant de la viande étrangère brûlé, un mouton mort déposé dans la propriété d'un député-maire, une voiture de gendarme jetée dans un canal, une prison attaquée (c'était à Quimper en 1983) ainsi qu'un centre des impôts et un bâtiment de la MSA incendié (à Morlaix, en 2014).

I'd lost sight of the most basic things in life and now they fill me with joy. It's like the feeling when you've been ill and then you recover and promise you'll never take your health for granted again. I will never take my happiness for granted.

Roma Aeterna: Quod occidit etiam oritur. That which sets also rises.

In days of old – that’s when it all began – they say the gods made a pledge with man, and Gaia gave us the gift of prophecy.

In days of old – that’s when it all began – they say the gods made a pledge with man, and Gaia gave us the gift of prophecy. And so… she caused a crack to open up from the hallowed realms below the earth, from which arose sacred steam which, when the Holy Oracle, the Pythia, breathed it in, could make her see and speak her visions of things that were to come. But thence came Apollo and slew the Python, whom he claimed was evil, freeing Delphi from its spell. And so she remained, the Pythia priestess still, but under his priests’ control, in the cavern beneath the Temple, and breathed in the sacred fumes from that deep crevice below where lay the rotting Python’s corpse, and spake in prophesy the words of the gods.

If you go to war,” she intoned, “A great nation will be destroyed. A mighty empire will be laid low, if go to war you do! Its cities will be sacked and its people slain, and their wails will be heard high and low across the land and on the battlefield – and the fields will run red with their blood.

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.