Cijilu Quotes & Sayings

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW. — Sakyong Mipham

Do you think that romantic love is natural; that the life of trade is honorable; that freedom of worship is desirable? Very likely you think none of those things; you have uncritically absorbed them, and only since you came to college begun to learn that they are al comparatively recent and local notions, the products of past conflicts and choices. As the hand of the dyer is tinged by what it works in, so your tastes, ambitions, and values take their quality from a context that was created for you before you were born. — Denham Sutcliffe

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing. — James Blake

One's not half of two; two are halves of one. — E. E. Cummings

If it changes your life, it wasn't an accident or coincidence. — David Lozell Martin

Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living. — Mark Victor Hansen

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors. — Rick Steves

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low. — George W. Bush

One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere. — Ray Anderson

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air. — Thomas Paine

Best fishing in troubled waters. — John Harington