The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLEWhere you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
AL YANKOVIC -
You will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn’t last.
MARIE CURIE -
When I’m dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
FREDDIE MERCURY -
I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. WHITE -
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you’re giving it up, you’re at the mercy of so many other people.
CHRISTIAN BALE -
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
BOYD K. PACKER -
Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH -
Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
HAFEZ -
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS -
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
BARNEY FRANK -
A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH -
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
ZHUANGZI -
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
ALAN GREENSPAN