Son Quotes - Page 77

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.

The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

One love, one heart . . . Let’s get together and feel all right

Find your inside beautyness. For me, being beautiful inside is more important that being beautiful outside. Make-up is so good for that because it helps to show your personality.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.

Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)

If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for some less - the weaker should be given more chance than the strong. In other words, a Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries coals to Newcastle. The poor, the downtrodden, the ignorant, let these be your God.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.