It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
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Don't focus on the outcome, when you focus on the outcome it creates anxiety and it builds. I just need to enjoy… — Luke Rockhold Copy Share Image
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments… — James Scott Copy Share Image
There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain, and I… — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
Getting recognized is sort of weird anyway. I'm 17 now. You get the odd person sort of shouting out "Ron!" or something.… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about...… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Watching 'Moonlight,' I just recognized this patience in the film - allowing moments to live and linger - and I just thought… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head… — Robby Benson Copy Share Image
Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology,… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
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