Goldies Boutique Quotes & Sayings

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray ... — Richard Wilbur

You don't need Mom and Dad's permission to take charge of your own life. Find something you want to do, and don't give up on it. You can start tomorrow. — Lisa Kleypas

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom. — Eugen Richter

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act. — James Woods

It may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that's nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again — Donna Tartt

For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I get sent lots of jewellery by fans, and that's absolutely lovely. — Katie McGrath

Fighting with anybody is very dangerous because you become like your enemy. — Rajneesh

From the perspective of the consciousness disciplines, our ordinary state of waking consciousness is severely suboptimal. Rather than contradicting the Western paradigm, this perspective simply extends it beyond psychology's dominant concern, at least until very recently, with pathology and with therapies aimed at restoring people to "normal" functioning in the usual waking state of consciousness. At the heart of this "orthogonal," paradigm-breaking perspective lies the conviction that it is essential for a person to engage in a personal, intensive, and systematic training of the mind through the discipline of meditation practice to free himself or herself from the incessant and highly conditioned distortions characteristic of our everyday emotional and thought processes, distortions that, as we have seen, can continually undermine the experiencing of our intrinsic wholeness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

There's a part of me that's convinced this everlasting war will end when I coax a smile out of that girl. — Rick Yancey

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders. — Pope Francis

If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what ... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now. — Douglas Coupland