Gravitating Define Quotes & Sayings

School just speeds things up ... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count. — Louis Sachar

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. — Andrea Dworkin

I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. — Emily Deschanel

Every time meditators try to control their thoughts or feelings, they are identifying personally (atta) with it and this causes more pain and frustration. — Bhante Vimalaramsi

The human race seems to love nothing more than a long detour. — Stephen R. Lawhead

All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath. — Jane Hamilton

We did this grown-up thing. This really adult thing. But we were still ourselves. We still laughed and made jokes. I expected to feel like this whole new person, but really it was me--plain old me--making this decision that I can never unmake. — Julie Murphy

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher. — Sharon Salzberg

But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me - naively dazzled and wholly enchanted by the complexities of the trickery, and thus all but incapable of any criticism, so that, indeed, he can claim, if he likes, priestly contact with the greater powers that, hurled at him by the muse, travel the parsecs from the Universe's furthest shoals, cleaving stars on the way, to shatter the specific moment and sizzle his brains in their pan, rattle his teeth in their sockets, make his muscles howl against his bones, and to galvanize his pen so the ink bubbles and blisters on the nib (nor would I hear her claim to such as other than a metaphor for the most profound truths of skill, craft, or mathematical and historical conjuration) - but she or he must also speak to my student, for whom it was an okay story, with just so much description. — Samuel R. Delany