Bo Lozoff Quotes

#1. We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Bo Lozoff

#2. If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?

Bill Maher

#3. Do you want a world with ... more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

Bo Lozoff

#4. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace ... and care properly for this planet we all share.

Bo Lozoff

#5. I don't need fancy cars and loads of money to feel successful or wanted. All I need is my dreams turning into a goal that eventually becomes a reality.

Leslie Paige

#6. The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

Bo Lozoff

#7. Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

Bo Lozoff

#8. You have to believe the lie to live it, to make others see you the way you need to be seen.

J.D. Robb

#9. But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

Mercedes Ruehl

#10. Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Bo Lozoff

#11. If you want to keep a secret, never share it.

Seneca.

#12. In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.

Bo Lozoff

#13. The way a government treats refugees is very instructive ...

Tony Benn

#14. The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:
Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

Bo Lozoff

#15. The Dothraki believed that all things of importance in a man's life must be done beneath the open sky.

George R R Martin

#16. My motto has always been "Time enjoyed is never wasted." Except replace "enjoyed" with "drunk" and "never wasted" with "never not a good idea.

Jenny Lawson

#17. The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Tom T. Hall

#18. I am my own tapestry, then, made as I could for myself. Some holes in my fabric have been made by others, some torn by chance. Missing threads in the weave represent all those I have loved who died so long before me

Nancy E. Turner

#19. Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

Bo Lozoff

#20. Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

Bo Lozoff

#21. Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.

Ian Bogost

#22. That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse.

Jim Butcher

#23. Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice ... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

Michel De Montaigne