Gongaware Scholarship Quotes

#1. I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.

Ezra Pound

#2. Pleasure! The end of suffering or the beginning of an enjoyment?

M.F. Moonzajer

#3. Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Andy Warhol

#6. As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised
As the mind deserts the body it has used.
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

T. S. Eliot

#7. Because being with you is like being too close to the sun. It's overwhelming and I'm scared I'm going to get burned.

Ivory Quinn

#8. Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

Philip Yancey

#9. Relationships are most likely to fail when we don't address problems or hold our partner accountable for unfair or irresponsible behavior ... the ability to clarify our values, beliefs, and life goals
and then to keep our behavior congruent with them
is at the heart of a solid marriage.

Harriet Lerner