Armoring Quotes

#1. Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.

Marc Ian Barasch

#2. Sunil rarely got angry when he discovered the secret reasons behind the ways people behaved. Having a sense of how the world operated, beyond its pretense, seemed to him an armoring thing.

Katherine Boo

#3. There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#5. Allah never changes a people's state unless they change what's in themselves

Haroon Siddiqui

#6. The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Robert Farrar Capon

#7. The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

George J. Mitchell

#8. Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)

Zoroaster

#9. We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#10. Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.

Lauren Groff

#11. When you take a book away from a child, you are taking a child away from a stepping stone.

C.L. Collyer

#12. I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Jimmy Buffett

#13. In the increasingly convincing darkness
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat.

John Ashbery

#14. I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It's about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you're having, and lending your support to other women. It's empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.

Melanie Brown

#15. All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Fernand Braudel

#16. Avoid doctors like the bubonic plague. On some level I know it's ignorant, but I think the stress of knowing you have a fatal disease kills faster than the disease itself.

Emma Chase