Quotes & Sayings About Friends Lasting A Lifetime

The way to work with desire in meditation is the same way we worked with body sensations. It is not very useful to suppress it, because when you do it comes out in some other way. On the other hand, you do not want to act on it either. If you are like me and you acted on all of your desires, they would lock you up. So you do not want to suppress your desires, and you also do not want to act all of them out. — Jack Kornfield

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all. — Ursus Wehrli

Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches. — Emily Carr

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her. — Paul Russell

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being. — Eckhart Tolle

Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110] — Anne Lamott

I like to look good, my friend. — Conor McGregor

The only person I let order me around is Zero! — Lucille Kallen

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon. — Jess Walter

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders. — Isabel Allende

Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing? — Sunday Adelaja

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural ... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa ... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly. — Carl Sagan