Amritanandamayi 300 Quotes & Sayings

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing. — Miles Franklin

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place. — Albert Ellis

That day, I learned that I could be a giver simply by bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have taught me that a kind word or a vote of support can be a charitable gift. I can move over and make another place for another to sit. I can turn my music up if it pleases, or down if it is annoying. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly want to be known as charitable. — Maya Angelou

Don't call me an egoist.; let an egoist name me so! — Raheel Farooq

It gives me my headache just trying to think down to your level — Douglas Adams

I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on. — Lindy Booth

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand. — Aaron Sorkin

To get whatever you want from life you have only to set in motion the appropriate cause, and the effect will take care of itself. — Keith Ellis

Words have to die if humans are to live. — Idries Shah

She handed him his cup of tea with the proud air of an unwilling slave ... — Elizabeth Gaskell

My feelings toward you were genuine. Those days we were together as a couple were the happiest of my life. — Maria V. Snyder

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves. — Martin Luther

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work. — Albert Einstein

When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend ... well, a legend, anyhow. — Don Rickles

Hitch your wagon to a star. — Ralph Waldo Emerson