“You don’t have to believe everything you think.”
– Eckhart Tolle
“You don’t have to believe everything you think.”
– Eckhart Tolle
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”
– Michelangelo
“War is what happens when language fails.”
– Margaret Atwood
You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master.
“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it.
It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in
beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it.
But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or
my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and
shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is
already broken, every moment with it is precious.”
– Achaan Chaa
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is
no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive
to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who
spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“The problem for me is not what I don’t know, it’s what I don’t do.”
– John Niland
“The most common lies a man tells are to himself.”
– Nietzsche
“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
– Anne Enright
“Life was alone, no name, no memory; it had hands, but no one to touch. It had a tongue, but no one to talk to. Life was one, and one was none. Then Desire drew his bow. The arrow of desire split life down the middle, and life was two. When they caught sight of each other, they laughed. When they touched each other, they laughed again.”
– Eduardo Galeano
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
– D.H. Lawrence
“What most people need, is a really good listening too.”
– Kate McCartney
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
– Henry Ford
“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche