Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Eckhart Tolle

Become conscious of being conscious.

Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Deepak Chopra

Time is just quantified eternity.

Deepak Chopra

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

Deepak Chopra

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Thomas a Kempis

Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.

Creed Bratton

I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Clive James

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

e. e. cummings

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

Adolf Hitler

One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.

Ann Landers

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Aesop

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

Aesop

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Glen Gulutzan

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Dave Baseggio

We showed an excellent effort to make a great comeback.

Rajneesh

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Norman Foster

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Max de Pree

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.