Raymond Arroyo Quotes

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

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• Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Trying

• The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Impossible

• It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Important
  • Evil
  • Fighting

• A good cover has a distinct silhouette

  

  J. C. Leyendecker
  • Good
  • Silhouettes

• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Blind

• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Intuition
  • Conclusion
  • Deduction

• Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Purpose

• The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Point
  • Horizon

• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Eternity
  • Human being
  • Wants

• I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Children
  • Song
  • Flying

• I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Profound
  • Chaos
  • Comforting

• This was Mahatma Gandhi’s idea, moving from ownership to relationship—seeing that land does not belong to us. We belong to the land. We are not the owners of the land. We are the friends of the land, like friends of the earth. The fundamental shift is in this consciousness that land does not belong to us, we belong to the land.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Earth
  • Moving
  • Ideas

• Don't let complexity stop you.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Stop
  • Complexity

• As long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

  

  Carlo D'Este
  • Being
  • Alive
  • Remembered

• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Occupation
  • Siege

• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Families
  • Resistance
  • Occupation

• TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

  

  Raymond Arroyo
  • Occupation
  • Passive