
Top 31 Weekend Retreat Quotes
#1. a couple of our buddies from Le Pavilion had opened restaurants in the Catskills around Shan-daken and Hunter Mountain and spoke highly of the area, so Jean-Claude and I, along with a few other friends, rented a place there to use as a weekend retreat.
Jacques Pepin
#2. Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests.
Darrell Calkins
#4. An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go.
Darrell Calkins
#5. I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend ... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents
Jeaniene Frost
#6. The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first
Byron Katie
#7. I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#8. [Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.
Rick Riordan
#9. One's soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish.
Darrell Calkins
#10. Luck comes when you bend to the requirements of reality.
Darrell Calkins
#11. Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.
Theresa May
#12. If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time.
Darrell Calkins
#13. Sustainable serenity, joy and fulfillment demand greater spiritual virtuosity, which is only found through deeper integration of conscience into the mix of one's core intent.
Darrell Calkins
#14. Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone's cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.
Darrell Calkins
#15. The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything.
Darrell Calkins
#16. This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness.
Darrell Calkins
#17. One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another's conceptualization of these ideas.
Darrell Calkins
#18. My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
Aaron Koblin
#19. Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.
Sandra Bernhard
#20. I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.
Vincent Van Gogh
#21. England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
Voltaire
#22. Progress and accomplishment with anything and everything depend on how much quality one brings to the show. What makes for quality, if one breaks it down, is spectrum and depth of virtue.
Darrell Calkins
#23. Now, what am I here for, again?' There's genuine humility, and courage, in that question.
Darrell Calkins
#24. The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.
Larry Rosenberg
#25. You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
Dougray Scott
#26. If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place.
Darrell Calkins
#27. A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.
Darrell Calkins
#28. A state of grace is when everything imperfect disappears, leaving just stripped-down harmony. One is left empty, with nothing except a fluid open sensation, similar to becoming the sound from a tuning fork piercing through space.
Darrell Calkins
#29. You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.
Bill Gross
#31. The pace and number of imagined obligations is neither from earth (nature's demands) nor from heaven (Nature's callings). So, they are synthetic and separated from both. The longer and deeper one invests in this synthetic process, the more exhausted and anguished one's essential spirit becomes.
Darrell Calkins
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