Chungliang Al Quotes

#1. When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

Stevie Wonder

#2. When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you.

Chungliang Al Huang

#3. Yet loyalty must run two ways, or else become betrayal in the egg.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites.

T.K. Naliaka

#5. Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Baruch Spinoza

#6. Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.

Chungliang Al Huang

#7. For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

Chungliang Al Huang

#8. Blue to get ready
Green to go
Yellow to guide you through the snow
Orange to warn you that over you'll go
Then red will be the final glow
Now seek the black, there's no going back.

Angie Sage

#9. How it irks me to have to take her hand, allow her to pull my dress over my head, undo my corsets and strip them off my, and have her see my blue veined swollen flesh and the hairy triangle that still proclaims with lunatic insistence a non-existent womanhood.

Margaret Laurence

#10. Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Joseph Barbera

#11. The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

Georgia Harkness

#12. He smiled, wondering if the owner would miss her handbag. What did she expect, leaving it in full view on the kitchen table last night?

Caroline Mitchell

#13. We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.

Bell Hooks

#14. Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

Chungliang Al Huang

#15. Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

Stephen Hawking

#16. Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.

Chungliang Al Huang

#17. Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

Chungliang Al Huang

#18. When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.

Chungliang Al Huang

#19. The true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers.

Miroslav Volf

#20. Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.

Chungliang Al Huang

#21. Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

Chungliang Al Huang

#22. Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl S. Buck