Coggins Disease Quotes & Sayings

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. — Edmund Hillary

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny. — Joseph Campbell

Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them that which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was. — Lord Chesterfield

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them. — Herman Melville

I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego, that would be a mistake. In the early years of enlightenment, psychologists were afraid of Hindus and Buddhists meditating because they thought they were going to shatter their egos and then they'd have to wear diapers or something, like they'd lose their toilet training or what have you. They were really afraid of it. — Robert Thurman

The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office. — Bellamy Young

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time. — Angel Haze

There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence. — George Orwell

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. — Stanislaw Lem

Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning. — Wayne Dyer

We are not slaves to unconscious drives unless we insist on believing that the subconscious is weaker or less important or dumber than our logical skills, if we neglect it and don't dive in. The important task is to understand and modify the stories that are holding sway. You can't bully the prerational with the rational. You need to communicate with it on its level: myth, ritual, symbol, metaphor. — Jessa Crispin

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had. — Don Cornelius

It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity. — Bernard Lewis