Idlers Club Quotes & Sayings

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled. — Anthony De Jasay

Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue. — Juvenal

Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way. — J.A. Redmerski

Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in. — Johnny Weir

Artists are very sensitive and heart-driven, and are usually prone to speaking freely about anything that touches them. The first way to identify a corrupt society is to study public figures in the entertainment sector. If many lack real talent, or have talent but rarely speak out openly about policies that affect them besides the environment, then that country has rigid gatekeepers. — Suzy Kassem

Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed ... we do not look like that. Love yourself! — Jenna Dewan

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man — Joe Calzaghe

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory. — Ann Brashares

We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the carg0. — Alexandre Dumas

A thoroughly ridiculous form of transport, but a thoroughly beautiful one. — Douglas Adams

I'm fairly certain that the problems in the Middle East could have been worked out already by now if the children of the leaders hadn't heard the phone ring when the peace treaty call came in. — Heather Davis