Colleen Houck Tiger's Curse Quotes

#1. There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

Dick Button

#2. I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Julia Ward Howe

#3. Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.

Eknath Easwaran

#4. Well, first of all, you can't expect me to have coherent thoughts when you're touching me. Second, you're too ... good-looking. Good-looking people usually get what they want.

Colleen Houck

#5. I feel like I'm some kind of fugitive here, like I'm hiding from something. Maybe myself.

Rachel Caine

#6. I don't want you to see only a tiger when you look at me. I want you to see me. The man.

Colleen Houck

#7. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis ...

David Rockefeller

#8. You are my pearl without a price.
-Ren, Tiger's Curse

Colleen Houck

#9. My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

Robert Vaughn

#10. If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.

Colleen Houck

#11. Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.

Phil Lester

#12. So you do have some claws after all!' (Wyea)
'You have no idea,' Ren responded and charged.

Colleen Houck

#13. I'm a much better writer for being a father.

Chris Cleave

#14. Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

Malala Yousafzai

#15. I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Delmore Schwartz

#16. The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.

Leo Strauss

#17. These are delicious! What are they?"
"Double chocolate chip with peanut butter filling."
"They're the second best thing I've ever tasted."
I laughed. "You said the same thing at dinner."
"I recently readjusted the ranking.

Colleen Houck

#18. Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

Ajahn Sumedho

#19. The dangerous one was Ren. Innocent though the white tiger he appeared to be, he was a compelling predator. Utterly irresistible
like a Venus flytrap. So alluring, so tempting, so deadly. Everything he did was seductive and possibly hazardous to my health.

Colleen Houck

#20. Stop looking at me like that."
"Like what?"
"Like you're hunting me. I'm not an antelope.

Colleen Houck

#21. Durga needs a tiger.

Colleen Houck

#22. The ghost of a smile appeared on her face. Learn to love the moment you are in. Treasure your experiences, for precious moments too quickly pass you by, and if you are always rushing toward the future, or pining for the past, you will forget to enjoy and appreciate the present.

Colleen Houck

#23. So spirit is both the highest "level" in the holarchy, but it's also the paper on which the entire holarchy is written. It's the highest rung in the ladder, but it's also the wood out of which the entire ladder is made.

Ken Wilber

#24. Billions of people, including many scientists, continue to use religious scripture as a source of authority, but these texts are no longer a source of creativity.

Yuval Noah Harari

#25. You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance ... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.

Steve Maraboli