Brambleclaws Family Tree Quotes & Sayings

Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens; your whole energy moves into compassion. And this movement is very different. Desire has a motivation in it, a goal; compassion is nonmotivated, there is no goal to it, it is simply overflowing energy. — Rajneesh

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. — Ronald Reagan

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!
Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it. — Hope Jahren

And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter - just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial? — Thomas Mann

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt. — Charles Keating

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste. — Swami Vivekananda

Two long lines of Shifters stretched over the field, standing unmoved. They expertly held composite bows at ready, various in origin and style. — A.O. Peart

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear
it was Tuesday, not Wednesday. — Judith Martin

Only God can set the soul in bondage free. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable. — Kevin Yoder

You love me?"
"Baby, you were made for me. — Kristen Ashley

The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family. — John Harvey Kellogg

I really like people. But I don't know how it will end. — Tom Drury