Root Poi Quotes

#1. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Emma Thompson

#2. Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

Samuel Johnson

#3. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!

Melina Marchetta

#4. If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

Laozi

#5. You know, I really enjoy longevity. I see actors in their forties and they just turn out these really fabulous roles and characters. You know who they are, but you wouldn't necessarily know their names.

Kelly Reilly

#6. A writer worth his salt is not going to write about how damned lovely it is; it isn't, that's why so many people tell themselves it is [lovely].

John A. Williams

#7. Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

Ken Venturi

#8. She owned the road
as an elephant owns the veldt
and like a big blue elephant
moved with massive grace
and dignity.

David Drake

#9. There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

Ellen Bass

#10. Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Tara Brach