Family Handprint Quotes & Sayings

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. — Gautama Buddha

Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming? — M.J. Mandoki

Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care and education, safer at home, positive themes. And respected abroad
a foreign policy with alliances. — Bill Richardson

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford. — Jack Vance

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all? — Charles Olson

Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love. — Felicia Day

Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice. 7. — Marcus Aurelius

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life. — Saint John Chrysostom

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable. — Jack Vance

Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him. — Victor Hugo

She could not say why these rather inconspicuous green slopes had so touched her heart, when along the railway line there were mountains, lakes, the sea at times even clouds dyed in sentimental colors. But perhaps their melancholy green, and the melancholy evening shadows of the ridges across them, had brought on the pain. Then too, they were small, well-groomed slopes with deeply shaded ridges, not nature in the wild; and the rows of rounded tea bushes looked like flocks of gentle green sheep. — Yasunari Kawabata

...have you ever thought you knew someone--I mean really knew someone--then realized that the person you thought you knew only existed in your overextended mind... — Stephanie Verni

It's all happening! — Cameron Crowe

In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness. — Sogyal Rinpoche

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again. — Anthony Warlow