Being A Cheerful Receiver Quotes

#1. I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

Adriana Lima

#2. Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

Chris Laidlaw

#3. The purpose of four incarnative existence is the evolution of the soul. It is to learn, grow and become master of our own life.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#4. I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

Mark Haddon

#5. You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#6. Making maps was the one small dream of his one small life. Who had the right to make fun of him for that?

Haruki Murakami

#7. A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.

Adam Rodriguez

#8. I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

Garth Brooks

#9. We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10. How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

John Dryden

#11. Only in the moments of writing, do I feel like I am worthy. That I love what has been given me.

Anna Glazebrook