Bobonne Quotes & Sayings

From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth. — Dalai Lama

What's more, veteran teachers who work long-term in high-poverty schools with low test scores are actually more effective at raising student achievement than is the rotating cast of inexperienced teachers who try these jobs out but flee after one to three years. — Dana Goldstein

I didn't recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bit ironic that my first time seeing a woman in all her form and glory and saggy drug-tainted tits, arrived at the same exact time as my first introduction to death. — Dave Matthes

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. — Geraldine Brooks

I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that? — Beatrice Sparks

Somewhere in my heart a little door closed with a clean, quiet "snick." I was through with Mike Terwilliger. And he had moved on to a woman who, while she obviously didn't make him entirely happy, was still better suited to him than I was. Whether he stayed with her or left her within a year, I knew it wouldn't affect me either way. Instead of waiting for them to collapse on themselves, I would be living my life. I may not have wished them well, but at least I wasn't devoting precious energy to wishing they would spontaneously combust. — Molly Harper

The limitless opportunity of being able to do
anything is daunting, but it's also the most rewarding.
I'm having the time of my life. — Kody Chamberlain

Wouldn't it be a horrible thing if we studied the ones we loved instead of bonding in deeper ways to doing things with them? — Bob Goff

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do. — Dean Ornish

It is said that science demystifies nature, but scientists on the frontier are awed by the elegance and harmony of nature. — Daniel C. Matt

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist. — Austin Kleon

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings. — David Rockefeller

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community.. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel! — Bill Peterson

The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal ... More recently, ... the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia). — Edd Doerr