Alwynn Mattern Quotes & Sayings

If the mind can stay with itself and not go out looking for things to criticize or latch onto, it can maintain a natural form of stillness. So this is something we have to try for in our every activity. Keep your conversations to a minimum, and there won't be a whole lot of issues. Keep watch right at the mind. When you keep watch with continuous mindfulness, your senses stay restrained. Being mindful in this way is something you have to work at. Try it and see. Can you keep this sort of awareness continuous? What sort of things can still get the mind engaged? What sorts of thoughts and labels of good and bad, me and mine, does it think up? Then look to see if these things arise and disband. — Upasika Nanayon

if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. — Mark A. Moon

So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had."
I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway. — Alex Flinn

Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self. — Gabrielle Bernstein

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think. — Doug Martsch

It's an easy guess, why some get famous over night and not during the day. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

I used to pray to God that I wouldn't get breasts. Then in my teens, I tried to be quite feminine. — Ruby Rose

At the center, on the lawn of the courthouse, sat a log manger with a life-size nativity scene cut out of plywood. If an civil libertarian had complained about the nativity being on public property, he would have been hunted down like Santa's reindeer during bow season. — Deborah Smith

When you are done changing, you're done. — Benjamin Franklin