Gakisan Quotes & Sayings

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged. — Pope Francis

Become intensely conscious of the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour. — Joe Abercrombie

Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen. — Greg Proops

Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I. — Jan Moran

Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was. — V.C. Andrews

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. — Chogyam Trungpa

The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level. — Isabel Allende

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh ... — Lembit Opik

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. — Martin Filler

Undaunted, nature would soon forget the passage of man and return to its routine, tireless and eternal. — Michael Jason Brandt