Cariboni Light Quotes & Sayings

Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it is. Perhaps we'll find an irritating, pulsating quality in laziness. We might feel it as dull and heavy or as vulnerable and raw. Whatever we discover, as we explore it further, we find nothing to hold on to, nothing solid, only groundless, wakeful energy.
This process of experiencing laziness directly and nonverbally is transformative. It unlocks a tremendous energy that is usually blocked by our habit of running away. This is because when we stop resisting laziness, our identity as the one who is lazy begins to fall apart completely. Without the blinders of ego, we connect with a fresh outlook, a greater vision. This is how laziness - or any other demon - introduces us to the compassionate life. — Pema Chodron

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it. — Karl Kraus

I loved her every minute of every day, heart and mind and soul and all of it, and it was getting late and I wanted the place never to close, never. — Donna Tartt

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. — Trent Reznor

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya. — Scott Anderson

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring. — Lu Xun

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story. — Randall Kennedy

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. — Samuel Johnson

Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite. — E.B. White

The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people. — Ron Reagan

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau