Blandly Urbane Quotes & Sayings

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing. — Neil Patrick Harris

It's called enlightenment. It's nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be. — Steve Hagen

Hypocrisy is when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in. — Greg Brenneman

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

All resources in your possession is an opportunity for service. — Sunday Adelaja

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. — Samuel Butler

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant. — Jennifer Weiner

When we first showed the Karma in January 2008, we had barely started the company. — Henrik Fisker

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. — Julia Cameron

I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did. — Georgia O'Keeffe

To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle. — Walter Percy

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side. — Edith Hamilton

Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself. — Michael Josephson

In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process. — Rachel Naomi Remen