Pali Language Quotes

#1. In the ancient Indian Pali language, the words for mind and heart are the same. And the Chinese character for mindfulness is a combination of two characters. One part means now and the other means mind or heart. So, when you hear the word mindfulness you can also consider it to mean heartfulness.

Shamash Alidina

#2. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peter Ustinov

#3. I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

Kelly Bishop

#4. I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

Vince Gill

#5. Reality is not a thought experiment.

David Amerland

#6. What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?

Joss Stirling

#7. For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

Lew Wallace

#8. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representational or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

Francis Schaeffer

#10. Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell.

Anne Lamott

#11. Do you want to change?"
"It's the only evidence of life.

Evelyn Waugh

#12. A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Julia Ormond

#14. Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Roger Ascham

#15. Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Steven Pressfield

#16. From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

F. Sionil Jose