Clavardage Quotes & Sayings

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger. — Bob Schieffer

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us. — Shunryu Suzuki

I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house. — Sebastian Arcelus

The sun gave us our eyes to see the beauty of nature, his creation, through his light. — Debasish Mridha

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. — Enid Bagnold

An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be. — Dallas Willard

That's when it hits me with a jolt. I sob uncontrollably. My mind is finally catching on, and it all comes rushing back to me. — Jen Khan

You see the bird and you see its flight.
You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

It is impossible to say just what I mean! — T. S. Eliot

You just accept that all relationships have their ups and downs. You have to have a sense of humor about the human condition itself and its seeming contradictions and paradoxes. You want the other person to be happy and comfortable, and you know that you are happy and comfortable when they are happy and comfortable. There is a mutual alignment with a peaceful lifestyle. Let go of judging, blaming, and controlling the other. Let go of expecting them to be different than they are. We all have our foibles. It can be sort of fun to make a list of your own foibles. There can be a decision not to focus on negativity in one's environment or a relationship. People can tolerate tensions and differences for variable periods of time, and at different ages you can tolerate things more or less. — David R. Hawkins

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body. — Haruki Murakami

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky

When you have four daughters, you learn to lose early and often. — Harvey Weinstein

The attitudes towards mental health must change — Kate Middleton