Figuring Maria Popova Quotes & Sayings

The easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up. — Ransom Riggs

If the eye never sleeps,
all dreams will naturally cease.
If the mind makes no discriminations,
the ten thousand things are as they are,
of single essence.
To understand the mystery of this One essence
is to be released from all entanglements.
When all things are seen equally
the timeless Self-essence is reached.
No comparisons or analogies are possible
in this causeless, relationless state.
Consider movement stationary
and the stationary in motion,
both movement and rest disappear.
When such dualities cease to exist
Oneness itself cannot exist.
To this ultimate finality
no law or description applies. — Sengcan

Do me the very great honor of becoming ... the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it ... — Barbara Elsborg

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it. — C.S. Lewis

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit. — William Blake

In our life there are moments when we have to move forward ... Regardless of how others may see us. Even if I make a mistake, I wont regret it! — Inio Asano

Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. — Floyd Skloot

I'm not very computer savvy. — Emma Stone

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. — John Steinbeck

He had many strange sights to keep him cheerful or to make him sad. I asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply, 'Am I not annoyed with them?' I asked too if he had ever seen the banshee. 'I have seen it,' he said, 'down there by the water, batting the river with its hands.' ("A Teller of Tales") — W.B.Yeats

No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story. — Catherynne M Valente