Buboy Villar Quotes

#1. We spend most of our lives striving so hard
to earn our own permission to be at rest
where we are
- when we could have done it all along.

Ivan M. Granger

#2. You cannot think if you are not separate from the subject of thought. Descartes said, "I think; therefore I am." The philosophic evolutionist reverses and negatives the epigram. He says, "I am not; therefore I cannot think.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

Julia McNair Wright

#4. The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

Eric Allin Cornell

#5. If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Osho

#6. Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatsoever will make the hearers good men.

Thomas Aquinas

#7. Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

#8. I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

Charles Dickens

#9. The only way to reach another person at any depth is to move toward what is deepest in yourself. In other words, to take the opposite path from the one followed by so-called generous minds.

Emil Cioran

#10. Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

Walter Willett

#11. I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.

Don McLean