Bodhichitta Beads Quotes & Sayings

There is joy in every step you take in life by having passion for what life has to offer you. — Michael Bluemling Jr.

What helped him build resilience the most, he told me, was overcoming pervasiveness: "Extreme compartmentalization may be my biggest superpower," he said, laughing. If a project doesn't turn out the way he wanted, Byron remembers that things could always be worse. "I say to myself and to others all the time, 'Is anyone gonna die?' That's the worst - I'm not afraid of failure." Byron — Sheryl Sandberg

The conventional way of understanding taste, according to Distinction, is to view it as a capacity for aesthetic judgments in areas such as music, art, and literature. Though rarely made explicit, it is well understood that taste can be found only among the elite, and that the lower classes lack it. Bourdieu argues that it is imperative to break with this concept of taste and replace it with one that is sociological in nature. In order to do so, Bourdieu expands the concept of taste from including only "aesthetic consumption" to including "ordinary consumption," that is, the consumption of clothing, furniture, and food ([1979] 1986:100). He also extends the concept of taste to all social classes, and shows that what constitutes "good taste" is very much part of the struggle for domination in society. — Richard Swedberg

When people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying. — Carol S. Dweck

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle. — William Shakespeare

Tell all the truth but tell it slant. — Emily Dickinson

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world. — Leo Tolstoy

Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind. — John Patrick Hickey

It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books. — Antonio Lobo Antunes

Cowboys don't go around breaking hearts. — Missy Lyons