16056 Quotes

#1. Here is another paradox: We become better people only when we give up the quest to become better people. That

Charles Eisenstein

#2. So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Watts

#3. There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa," he whispered. "I can't afford those things.

Sarah Brocious

#4. We all understand that this is just music. We all understand these songs were written Before - there is no way the band could have known how we would hear them After. But the songs ring true.

David Levithan

#5. When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

Graham Swift

#6. If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

Alan Cohen

#7. I've left it unedited, which means you'll get to see the [brackets] I insert to remind myself to research things or fix things later. In this case, I fixed things by writing a different story.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#8. Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Philip Sidney

#9. Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

Peter Drucker

#10. Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

Anna Quindlen

#11. A dreadful thing one day befell me when a horse came to stand on my toe. Having no power to remove him, I found that I could not go.
An awful thing sometime later befell me when the horse was removed from my toe. Alone and with naught to secure me, I found I was forced to go.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

Susan Fenimore Cooper

#13. In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing.

Ronnie Barker

#14. Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures
tranquility.

Marcus Aurelius

#15. Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Sinclair Lewis