Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Vivien Leigh

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

William Howard Taft

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Willa Cather

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Vivienne Westwood

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Henry A. Kissinger

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

Epictetus

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

John Green

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Micky Arison

It's not easy to take three ships out of service.

Terry Pratchett

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

John Bunyan

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

Hesiod

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

Dan Harmon

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story