A Dish Of Stones Quotes & Sayings

Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. — Victor Hugo

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Even if we're far apart, let's have hope and keep working hard. — Yoochun

No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review. — Bruce Schneier

And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use. — Herodotus

An idea made real through imagination shapes the spiritual prototype of a thing created. — Garry Fitchett

The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most effective fighters against injustice, inequality, slavery, cruelty, exploitation (and also are best fighters for excellence, effectiveness, competence). And it also becomes clearer and clearer that our best 'helpers' are the most fully human persons. What I may call the bodhisattvic path is an integration of self-improvement and social zeal, i.e., the best way to become a better 'helper' is to become a better person. But one necessary aspect of becoming a better person is via helping other people. So one must and can do both simultaneously. — Abraham H. Maslow

Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs. — Kiera Van Gelder

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. — Mary Ellen Mark

Laser light flickered all over him as if he was a packet of biscuits at a super-market check-out. — Douglas Adams

Quote of the day:
"You are not a bad person.
You are just a good person, in a bad place. — Gary Edward Gedall

Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived. — Wilma Mankiller

Despite the experiences that put me in the spotlight as the co-creator of my wisdom, the human part of me keeps burning, like an alchemical process that I both accept and want to refuse. You see, it's hard when I notice women falling in love with me, and then destroying everything at the same time. And so, I'm changing the world as much as this world is changing me. The two things are inseparable. — Robin Sacredfire

There is nothing so stupid or dangerous or painful that people won't eagerly do it, if by doing it they will make others believe they are better or stronger or more honorable. I have seen people poison themselves, destroy their children, abandon their mates, cut themselves off from the world, all so that others would think they were a better sort of person. — Orson Scott Card