Aprendes Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest. — Nhat Hanh

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was. — Mitch Albom

It was a single poppy seed ... she rolled it between her fingers and raised her eyes past the straining sails, to the star-filled vault above. On any other night she would have scanned the sky for the planet she had always thought to be the arbiter of her fate - but tonight her eyes dropped instead to the tiny sphere she was holding between her thumb and forefinger. She looked at the seed as if she had never seen one before, and suddenly she knew that it was not the planet above that governed her life: it was this minuscule orb - at once bountiful and all-devouring, merciful and destructive, sustaining and vengeful. This was her Shani, her Saturn. — Amitav Ghosh

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood. — Barry Marshall

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people. — William Scranton

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids. — Rob Sheffield

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. — J.B. Priestley

I've always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don't have patience; they refuse to plan. — Gillian Flynn

Besides, people never regard anything that serves and benefits them as mysterious; only the things which damage or threaten them are mysterious. — Karel Capek

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology. — Dylan Smith