Cultivation Return Quotes & Sayings

Everything had begun ugly for Adam, but he knew what Gansey meant. His noble and oblivious and optimistic friend was slowly opening his eyes and seeing the world for what it was, and it was filthy, and violent, and profane, and unfair. Adam had always thought that was what he wanted - for Gansey to know. But now he wasn't sure. Gansey wasn't like anyone else, and suddenly Adam wasn't sure he really wanted him to be. — Maggie Stiefvater

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. — Sam Levenson

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes. — Natalia Makarova

Even their mother missed them - and how much more their tender-hearted cousin, who wandered about the house, and thought of them, and felt for them, with a degree of affectionate regret which they had never done much to deserve! — Jane Austen

The ultimate form of attraction is to be what you want to attract. — Bryant McGill

We're both just human. Nothing more. But also nothing less. — Carrie Ryan

TO ACCEPT THE DIFFICULTIES,SETBACKS AND TRAGEDIES OF LIFE AS A CHALLENGE WHICH TO OVERCOME MAKES US STRONGER, RATHER THAN AS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN TO US REQUIRES FAITH AND COURAGE — Erich Fromm

I just don't know. Maybe I'm good, but that goddamn scale would hesitate a long time before tilting that way. — John D. MacDonald

Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances — Gautama Buddha

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking? — Confucius