Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
AJAHN CHAHWhy get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It’s like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINO -
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE -
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON -
Despite the lack of colors, she was a work of art.
NOOR BAZZI -
There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
LORD BYRON -
My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of ‘Do this because you love it’ not ‘Do this because you want to be famous.’
ZOOEY DESCHANEL -
Reality breaks hearts, but life is beautiful.
ANAND THAKUR -
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
DOLORES HUERTA -
I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
QUEEN LATIFAH -
I’m just going to punch him and do my best. If the knockout comes, it comes.
MANNY PACQUIAO -
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
THOMAS MORE -
Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.
DOROTHEA DIX -
Sometimes you work with somebody you’ve never heard of because you just feel like working.
BENMONT TENCH