Bolkonskys Quotes & Sayings

We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality. — Sharon Salzberg

There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. — John Tillotson

Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. — E. Lockhart

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury! — Will Rogers

No. It happened. But if it simplifies your life to disbelieve it, then do so. — Peter David

Sydney: I can do a lot of things, Adrian.
And - at the risk of sounding egotistical - I mean, well, I can do a lot of pretty awesome things that most people can't."
Adrian: "Don't I know it. You can change a tire in ten minutes while speaking Greek."
Sydney: "Five minutes. — Richelle Mead

But the irony: Don't I often want to desperately wriggle free of the confines of a small life? Yet when I stand before immensity that heightens my smallness--I have never felt sadness. Only burgeoning wonder. Is it because within each frame of finite flesh lies the likeness of infinite God? In all things large and spectacular, we recognize glimpses of home and the call to our own deeper chemistry. Do we writhe to peel out of our smallness and into the big life because that fits our inborn God-image? — Ann Voskamp

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you. — Michael Caine

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something. — William, Saroyan

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson

Fortune cookies are an American invention, and we gave it to them. The Chinese were probably like, "Uh, we don't want it." And we were like, "It's now part of your ethnic identity. — Jim Gaffigan

Then I think, fuck it, this bit of floor looks nice. — Jay Stringer

Clean out your mind closet.
Clean out resentment and hatred.
Clean out regrets and secrets.
Now fill it with love, joy and respect. — Debasish Mridha