In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . .… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
I try and get on my yoga mat at least three times a week, and if I don't, things start to unravel.… — Sameer Gadhia Copy Share Image
I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on… — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface… — David Frost Copy Share Image
Young people can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I think more about clicking the teeth, because I have to line them up just exactly right, and then I slam them… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There are some days I feel fat. I'm not convinced there's going to be a moment where every woman in the world… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
“Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal.… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I'd like to say that I am romantic person, but I don't think I am. When I won my first tournament I… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and… — Malaclypse the Younger Copy Share Image
You can live a charmed life by causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the source of 'charm' --… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can… — Lauren Lapkus Copy Share Image
As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Meditation is the technique of inner conquest - and that is the real challenge. Those who have any guts should accept the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image