Brontasaurus’s most recent Quotables

The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and world's deep hunger meet.

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Work is love made visible

One did nothing more than study the raw material for a time until one came to understand how best to carve it into a shape that would appeal to Little Miss' love of tiny mammals.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with tolerance, they learn to be patient.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with acceptance and friendship, they learn to find love in the world.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.