41st Monthsary Quotes

#1. But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

Bodhidharma

#2. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Josephine Tey

#4. When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three ... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

William Godwin

#6. I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Jose Saramago

#7. I'm a little panicky when I realize he's not here. It's a lot easier to push down my doubt when he's with me. When I can see those eyes the color of melted chocolate and hear his deep voice that falls over me like a warm blanket on a cold night.

Rick Yancey

#8. I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem.

Kim Vogel Sawyer

#9. There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.

Veronica Rossi

#10. One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. By privately endorsing Seward's spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic and potentially devastating situation.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#12. Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.

Pearl Zhu

#13. We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Stephen R. Covey

#14. Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would be afraid. He didn't know where he was,

Larry McMurtry