Jades Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

When you were born, did your parents shove a book of world history in your face? No, absolutely not. They gave you what you could handle, and that's exactly how you need to treat the reader. — A.J. Flowers

Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation. — David Z. Hirsch

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble. — Jens Lekman

Happiness will come to you when it comes from you. Others can only bring temporary happiness and not everyone understands you. — Krystal

There was little point in mourning a thing you'd never had, and so she didn't mourn, most days. — Cecilia Grant

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. — James Boswell

In tantric practice one identifies with a yidam of a particular buddha family corresponding to one's nature. For instance, if a yidam is associated with the ratna family, then he will be yellow in color and have symbolism characteristic of ratna. The types of mandalas given to you by your teacher depend upon the family to which you belong, whether you belong to the passionate family or the family of pride, or whether you have the quality of air or water in you. Generally one can feel that certain people have the quality of earth and solidness, and certain people have the quality of air, rushing here and there, and other people have the quality of warmth and a presence connected with fire. The mandalas are given to you so that you can identify yourself with your particular emotions which have the potential of transmuting into wisdom. — Chogyam Trungpa

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart. — Phil Cousineau

When you trust people to help you, they often do. — Amanda Palmer