Naikan Self Quotes

#1. The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Thomas Southerne

#2. Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

Carl Honore

#3. Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things
And battles long ago.

William Wordsworth

#4. The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.

Will Schwalbe

#5. Never has a spear moved so fast!

Zhao Yun

#6. Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and ... grace ... pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#7. Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

Paul Dano

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

#10. Before any outcome was made public, the radicals had worked themselves into "a fury of rage," certain that the president "was about to give up the political fruits which had been already gathered

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#11. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

Barack Obama