Elessons Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a big shopper. — Jon Bernthal

I think I've learned to be mindful. I may not have taken the time to try to understand narrative techniques, let's say, with any rigor, if I did not also have to try to explain those techniques to someone else. — John Dufresne

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again. — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n; because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it. — Ramana Maharshi

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering. — Roland Barthes

Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits. — Henry David Thoreau

Finding your bliss can make survival seem like. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it. — Sharon Law Tucker

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? — Robert Orben

True scientists consider anthropomorphism to be something of a mortal sin and ostracize scientists who knowingly employ it in their work. — Bruce H. Lipton