Abidance Quotes & Sayings

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that. — Taylor Stevens

I'm no superman. — Michael Irvin

Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun ... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman. — David Letterman

Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal. — Derek Thompson

379True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states lead only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness. — Adyashanti

How does one undermine the framework of racial reasoning? By dismantling each pillar slowly and systematically. The fundamental aim of this undermining and dismantling is to replace racial reasoning with moral reasoning, to understand the black freedom struggle not as an affair of skin pigmentation and racial phenotype but rather as a matter of ethical principles and wise politics, and to combat the black nationalist attempt to subordinate the issues and interests of black women by linking mature black self-love and self-respect to egalitarian relations within and outside black communities. The failure of nerve of black leadership is its refusal to undermine and dismantle the framework of racial reasoning. — Cornel West

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. — Jose Saramago

I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories. — Martha Grimes

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. — Howard Lindsay

There is nothing more romantic than this. Holding the very person that you thought you lost, and knowing you'll never lose them again. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. — Jose Saramago

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. — Maria Montessori

I never knew him. We both knew this place,
apparently, this literal small backwater,
looked at it long enough to memorize it,
our years apart. How strange. And it's still loved,
or its memory is (it must have changed a lot).
Our visions coincided--'visions' is
too serious a word--our looks, two looks:
art 'copying from life' and life itself,
life and the memory of it so compressed
they've turned into each other. Which is which?
Life and the memory of it cramped,
dim, on a piece of Bristol board,
dim, but how live, how touching in detail
--the little that we get for free,
the little of our earthly trust. Not much.
About the size of our abidance
along with theirs: the munching cows,
the iris, crisp and shivering, the water
still standing from spring freshets,
the yet-to-be-dismantled elms, the geese. — Elizabeth Bishop

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar. — Bill Moyers

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily. — Margaret Fuller

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park. — Willie Stargell

I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out. — Lea Thompson

The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness. — Ramana Maharshi