Culchie Quotes & Sayings

Mindfulness should guide all your actions and your spiritual endeavors. Whatever you do, always apply three essential points: undertake the action with the intention of doing so for the good of all beings; execute it with perfect concentration, free of attachment to concepts of subject, object, and action; and, finally, dedicate the merit you have created to the enlightenment of all beings. — Dilgo Khyentse

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments. — Jimmy Wales

My hopes rose every time the phone rang, but it was never him. I concocted stories in my mind of every possible scenario where he would come for me or call me and declare his feelings. We would run far away together, where his father could never find us.
In other words, I was delusional. — Wendy Higgins

With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with. — Terry Pratchett

Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years. — Sheldon L. Glashow

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood. — Elizabeth McGovern

The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason? — Francis Collins

Our world needs to be touched by Christians who are Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, and Spirit-empowered. — Billy Graham

I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system. — George W. Bush

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things. — Betty Smith

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children. — Lisa Vidal

If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life? — Ramani Durvasula

Desire- grasping, clinging, greed, attachment - is a state of mind that defines what we think we need in order to be happy. We project all of our hopes and dreams of fulfillment onto some object of our attention. This may be a certain activity or outcome, a particular thing or person. Deluded by our temporary enchantment, we view the world with tunnel vision. That object, and that alone, will make us happy. — Sharon Salzberg