Grannon Richard Quotes

#1. Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

Rob Brezsny

#2. Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

Adyashanti

#3. I've worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn't be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.

Mindy Kaling

#4. When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you.

Bill Johnson

#5. Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#6. Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.

Rene Char

#7. I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at memorizing, and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

Patti Smith

#8. In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

Orson Welles

#9. We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#10. Moral beauty, so Gerard Manley Hopkins said, is dangerous. If such individuals could take his advice to meet it, then let it alone, things would be easier. But it is just which they can not do.

R.D. Laing