Chaos Quote by Amy Tan

“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic…

— Skyler White

“The hermit said, ‘This is the way to be strong: when temptations start to speak in your mind do not answer them but get…

— Benedicta Ward

“Misery is vitamin for the Soul (The Real-Self), and happiness is vitamin for the body (The Non-Self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature…

— Michel Foucault

When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It…

— George C. Lorimer

“I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Only the Vitraags (the enlightened ones) can take a beating from the weak, no one else can.”

— Dada Bhagwan

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to…

— Melina Marchetta

“Three cheeses isn’t a choice, it’s a penance.”

— Terry Pratchett

“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.”

— Spider Robinson

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not…

— Thomas Merton