Blankson Home Quotes & Sayings

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom. — Tara Brach

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute. — Edmund White

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money — Warren Buffett

Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means. — Ian McEwan

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them. — Margaret Mahy

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go. — Santoka Taneda

Unfortunately, our over-emphasis on the male as oppressor often obscures the fact that men too are victimized. To be an oppressor is dehumanizing and anti-human in nature, as it is to be a victim. Patriarchy forces fathers to act as monsters, encourages husbands and lovers to be rapists in disguise; it teaches our blood brothers to feel ashamed that they care for us, and denies all men the emotional life that would act as a humanizing, self-affirming force in their lives. — Bell Hooks