Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Cassel

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

Sarah Dessen

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

Trisha Yearwood

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

Milarepa

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Paul Ryan

Life is short, you better make the most of it.

Josh Lawson

I directed one of my shorts that did festivals around the world, and that was great. I've got a bit of a bug for that now. I just hope I keep challenging myself and keep doing stuff that interests me with people who I respect and who teach me stuff. If I can keep doing that in anything - acting, writing, directing or whatever - I'll do it because life is short.

Jostein Gaarder

Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

Radhanath Swami

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Richard John Neuhaus

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Samuel Johnson

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Wayne Dyer

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Wallace Stegner

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Richard Davidson

In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

William Martin

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

Richard Rohr

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Mike Love

Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

Joko Beck

Meditation is not about doing something

Nhat Hanh

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.