Carlo Riva Quotes & Sayings

To accept life means to accept impermanence and emptiness of self. The source of suffering is a false belief in permanence and the existence of separate selves. Seeing this, one understands that there is neither birth nor death, production nor destruction, one nor many, inner nor outer, large nor small, impure nor pure. All such concepts are false distinctions created by the intellect. If one penetrates into the empty nature of all things, one will transcend all mental barriers, and be liberated from the cycle of suffering. — Thich Nhat Hanh

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow. — Amit Ray

We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes. — Deborah Hersman

Missandei said the Peaceful People made music instead of war. They did not kill, not even animals; they ate only fruit and never flesh. — George R R Martin

There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation. — Patricia Wentworth

My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine. — Anna Johnson

Love is ... a madness most discreet — William Shakespeare

The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist. Ironically, — Jerry A. Coyne