Gauger Cobbs Quotes & Sayings

We may be partial, but Fate is not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't get hurt if you're already standing in the flames. — C.M. Stunich

This acquiring of a new viewpoint in Zen is called *satori* (*wu* in Chinese) and its verb form is *satoru*. Without it there is no Zen, for the life of Zen begins with the "opening of *satori*". *Satori* may be defined as intuitive looking-into, in contradistinction to intellectual and logical understanding. Whatever the definition, *satori* means the unfolding of a new world hitherto unperceived in the confusion of the dualistic mind. — D.T. Suzuki

There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious. — Elizabeth Goudge

I smile at her. "You're an angel."
"Nah," she says.
"I'm just a girl crazy in love. — Pittacus Lore

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper. — Elayne Boosler

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing. — John Powell

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself. — Frederic Chopin

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young. — Sugar Ray Leonard

We have a problem and a a problem demands a solution. Problem and solution - these two terms are inseparably connected to each other. It means if a person has a problem there is a certain method - it could be mathematical, algebra - that you can apply to this problem. What you get out of that is the solution. With that the problem is over.

But it is not like that in human life. It is not like that with - now I am going to use the word myself - problems. Human problems, social problems, societal problems will never be solved... It is an illusion that some kind of problem will be solved. — Joseph Weizenbaum

In the day of prosperity rejoice, but in the day of adversity consider: God hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. — Anonymous

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations. — Bradford Cox

We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them. — Matt Taibbi