Syed Ali Shah Geelani Quotes

#1. The world will be hostile, it will be suspicious of your intent, it will misinterpret you, it will inject you with doubt, it will flatter you into self-sabotage. What the world is, more than anything? It's indifferent.

Maria Semple

#2. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Work hard. Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.

Carole Estrup

#4. Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller understanding of the immanent purposiveness of the organism and the deep continuity of life and mind.

Evan Thompson

#5. I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Amy Tan

#6. We invest the moment with meanings it may not necessarily have. We constrain and limit the potential outcomes by imposing external expectations, by imagining and anticipating how others will see things, what they might say...when in reality none of that might matter." ~Jeremy William Carling

Stephanie Laurens

#7. Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. [On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.

Peggy Noonan

#10. The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA, "enemy killed in action," even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless

Jeremy Scahill

#11. I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.

Elizabeth Lesser

#12. If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche