Essentialized Quotes

#1. The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Sogyal Rinpoche

#2. Little Boy Blue ... he needed the money!

Andrew Dice Clay

#3. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

E.W. Howe

#4. I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

Leonard Cohen

#5. To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

Bill Haywood

#6. dolphins are not the benevolent mammals we'd like them to be; those beaming faces hide the minds of assassins.

Philip Hoare

#7. she didn't have to take more than the doctor

Jerry Bledsoe

#8. The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

Sophie Swetchine

#9. When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

Garrison Keillor

#10. There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Their mistake was the mistake of Galileo. He was right that the earth revolves around the sun, but he didn't know that the entire solar system revolves around yet another center; he didn't know that the real orbit of the earth, as opposed to the relative orbit, is by no means some naive circle ...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#12. To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
[Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile
Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]

Plautus

#13. Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation ... all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

Brigham Young

#14. Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

Horace

#15. Settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual

Charles Dickens