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“I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be a person of strong character and bravery - not ordinary people. That what I would call them. It's not like some petty official or something that decided to defect to the other side. For them it was a very serious moment.”
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“I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.”
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“Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.”
Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA
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“God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.”
Source : Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.465, Discovery House
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“I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.”
Source : Marion Jones (2010). “On the Right Track: From Olympic Downfall to Finding Forgiveness and the Strength to Overcome and Succeed”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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“Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we hadn't had before. Would I trade that in order to have her back? In a fraction of a millisecond. But I won't ever have her back. So I have taken this, as her great gift to us. But. Do I block her out? Never. Do I think of her? Always. In some part of my brain, I think of her every single moment of every single day.”
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“How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.”
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“To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom.”
Source : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 90), 2001.
