Psyblog Understand Quotes

#1. Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

Matthieu Ricard

#2. Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.

Robert Grudin

#3. God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine Of Hippo

#4. Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

#5. After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.

Robyn Davidson

#6. I don't date women my age. There aren't any.

Milton Berle

#7. Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Howard Gardner

#8. So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Virginia Satir

#9. A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

Stephen Fry

#10. Once a door is open, you have to live with what's on the other side.

Mira Grant

#11. It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

Melina Marchetta

#12. Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

Walter Anderson

#13. The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

Slavoj Zizek

#14. Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

Stephen King