"Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work."

-- Benjamin Hoff

#Simple Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Adieu, Lord Dain,â€ she answered without turning her head. â€œHave a pleasant evening with your cows.â€ Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit heâ€™d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to hisâ€¦ cows.”
“Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.”
“...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.”
“I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when thereâ€™s $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, sheâ€™ll get another paycheck. I have no idea,”
“Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.”
“On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.”
“Obey your bishop! "Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17]," the teachers of the Church.... I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For "how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?”
“You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile”

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