Weekend With Darrell Calkins Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

Patti Smith

#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. 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

#6. Luck comes when you bend to the requirements of reality.

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#7. Once you've wretled everthing else in life is easy.

Dan Gable

#8. If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time.

Darrell Calkins

#9. There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

Tom Courtenay

#10. Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

Felix Frankfurter

#11. Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.

Nalini Singh

#12. I think you have a lot to say. I'd like to hear it.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#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. Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

Ron Fournier

#15. 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

#16. The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything.

Darrell Calkins

#17. 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

#18. One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another's conceptualization of these ideas.

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#19. The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.

Johnny Carson

#20. In Buddhism, since the definition of "living" refers to sentient beings, consciousness is the primary characteristic of "life.

Dalai Lama XIV

#21. This place we're flying over now isn't in the atlas, is it?' the pilot said, grinning. 'You're darn right it isn't in the atlas!' cried the Head of the Air Force. 'We've flown clear off the last page!

Roald Dahl

#22. My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.

Anders Hejlsberg

#23. 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

#24. Now, what am I here for, again?' There's genuine humility, and courage, in that question.

Darrell Calkins

#25. If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place.

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#26. 'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.'

Mike Gayle

#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