Dhamma Brothers Quotes & Sayings

If your expectations are always those of someone content to live without physical challenge, then when it comes time for mental, moral, or emotional challenge you fail to meet it because you are out of practice. Meeting and overcoming obstacles are skills that can be honed, as opposed to talents with which we are born. The best way to prepare for the inevitable shit that life occasionally hands us all is to live in a way that prepares you for it. If you can treat personal tragedy like a heavy set of 20 squats, you'll do better than someone who has never met any challenge. Intentionally placing yourself in the position of having to complete a task when you don't know if you can is the single best way of preparing to be in that position unintentionally. — Mark Rippetoe

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt

I've never been scared of the dark, but I'm still terrified of what's in it. — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde

I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not. — Juliette Binoche

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious. — Bill Crawford

When I die, so does hip hop. — Eminem

Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. — Graham Greene

You wearing a thigh sheath?"
"Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs. — Lisa Shearin

If we want to experience the glory of God in our lives continually, we will always need to be seekers of His presence. Have we experienced the presence of God in certain places or through particular devotional and worship patterns? Are we expecting always to find our Beloved there? If we are sensing a lack of His presence, it may be that He wants us to seek Him in new ways or with greater intensity. Seeking Him reveals our true desire for His glory. Perhaps He hides Himself simply so that He can take delight in our desire for Him.
Many — Fuchsia T. Pickett

Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm. — Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself. — Carl Sagan

When she was living one of her fantasies she felt like a bird, the freedom of its wings letting her soar without earthly boundaries, enabling her to look on to her vividly imagined scenes from a great height. — Wendy Anne Gibbins-Lekkou

Take a leap of faith, because if you're not risking something, you're not truly living. — Robert Palasciano