Alifstudio Quotes & Sayings

When we are distracted by a strong emotion, do we remember that it is part of our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but know that we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on. 51 Deepening Tonglen IN TONGLEN, after genuinely connecting with the pain and your ability to open and let go, then take the practice a step further and do it for all sentient beings. — Pema Chodron

We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum — Ed Mayo

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. — Cory Booker

Laws die, but Books never. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for. — Alexandra Adornetto

Justine, whenever someone says 'this is for your own good,' it's a guarantee they're about to cause you some kind of damage. — Lisa Kleypas

I think all families are creepy in a way. — Diane Arbus

Purify your heart and clean it from all earthly matters. The time of fun and waste has gone. The time of judgment has arrived. Hence we need to utilize those few hours to ask God for forgiveness. You have to be convinced that those few hours that are left you in your life are very few. From there you will begin to live the happy life, the infinite paradise. Be optimistic. The prophet was always optimistic. — Mohamed Atta

American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial. — Pontus Hulten

Imitation is a necessity of human nature. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for? — Robert Frost

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice. — Charles A. Reich