Aroha Quotes & Sayings

It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will. — Tippi Hedren

If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. — Tacitus

We don't like checklists. They can be painstaking. They're not much fun. But I don't think the issue here is mere laziness. There's something deeper, more visceral going on when people walk away not only from saving lives but from making money. It somehow feels beneath us to use a checklist, an embarrassment. It runs counter to deeply held beliefs about how the truly great among us - those we aspire to be - handle situations of high stakes and complexity. The truly great are daring. They improvise. They do not have protocols and checklists. Maybe our idea of heroism needs updating. — Atul Gawande

Embarrassment wasn't what I had in mind. Put it this way: I'm not really interested in any of them wanking off to the sounds of us fucking in the next room. — Georgia Cates

Sometimes there just isn't any cure for a situation. — Robert A. Heinlein

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. — Robert Smith

Life is given for increase — Sunday Adelaja

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' — Alan Ball

Identifying feminism as women's enemy only furthers the ends of a backlash against women's equality, simultaneously deflecting attention from the backlash's central role and recruiting women to attack their own cause. Some — Susan Faludi