Ibelius Quotes & Sayings

A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to make spiritual practice more a part of the community. I write about infusing people with compassion. — Sakyong Mipham

A man is known not by what he is but by what he does. — Me

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. — Theodore Roosevelt

The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet. — Wade Davis

In your car you're in your own private world and in the world at large, both at the same time. — A.S.A Harrison

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life. — Nancy Mitford

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact. — Elizabeth Gaskell

First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed. — Hadewijch

I heartedly approve, in theory," said Ibelius, "but in practice I believe I shall ... absent myself. — Scott Lynch

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats. — Scott Lynch

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear. — Yasser Seirawan

You are learning that what you require and what your frame may endure can be two very different things. If only I could have a solon for every patient who came to me speaking as you do! 'Ibelius, I have smoked Jeremite powders for twenty years and now my throat bleeds, make me well!' 'Ibelius, I have been drunk and brawling all night, and now my eye has been cut out! Restore my vision, damn you.' Why, let us not speak of solons, let us instead say a copper baron per such outburst...I could still retire to Lashain a gentleman! — Scott Lynch