An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEIf you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
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Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
PEMA CHODRON -
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
ROBERTO BOLANO -
Do not cling to what isn’t meant for you.
SHELEANA AIYANA -
I want the light filtered down through the trees painting flesh like a mosaic and filling up the dark in me. I want to see how sunset decorates your hair.
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON -
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
AL FRANKEN -
Donald Trump’s rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn’t joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.
BEN DOMENECH -
That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
We fucked a flame into being.
D. H. LAWRENCE -
That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
And let her think I don’t care she’s with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want
ABBI GLINES -
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
A. B. SIMPSON -
Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.
ACHIM STEINER -
Everything happens in real-time, so make decisions that are easy to live with.
POLO G -
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
BERNARD CRICK -
Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.
GURU NANAK -
National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.
BAN KI-MOON -
We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
WOLE SOYINKA -
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
DALE CARNEGIE -
You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you…all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. -Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace
BRIAN JACQUES -
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA -
A fraction of an ounce of kindness from you was enough for me to fall.
BURIED CAESAR -
Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was – there’s no doubt about it. There’s never been anybody since. He’s one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
JIMMY PAGE -
I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
LARRY BIRD -
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
ALAN LIGHTMAN