John Doe Seven Quotes & Sayings

You cannot be both in love and a wise person. — M.F. Moonzajer

Whether or not the historical Buddha actually suffered from the kind of primitive agonies Winnicott expounded upon, the meditations he taught in the aftermath of his awakening "hold" the mind just as Winnicott described a mother "holding" an infant. In making the observational posture of mindfulness central to his technique, the Buddha established another version of "an auxiliary ego-function" in the psyches of his followers, one that enabled them, to go back to his metaphor of pulling out an arrow, to tend to their own wounds with both their minds and their hearts. Far from eliminating the ego, as I naively believed I should when I first began to practice meditation, the Buddha encouraged a strengthening of the ego so that it could learn to hold primitive agonies without collapse. — Mark Epstein

Desperate men are dangerous. And I do know that the United States is not ready to go to war against Japan. Our navy isn't ready and our air force isn't ready. — Ken Follett

Most things I go through I have to write about. — Keri Hilson

You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show.
Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble. — Rosalinda Oropeza Randall

You need to make sure you're going exactly where your guy goes in press coverage. In zone, you can read the quarterback and his eyes a bit to determine where he's going. You don't get the opportunity in press coverage to read the quarterback, so it's all on you. — Antonio Cromartie

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A. — Robert Mankoff

The Shooting Star Charm

To Be Lucky in Love, You Must First Believe in Miracles — Viola Shipman

I believe in littering. Waste should not be hidden, but seen. — Cass McCombs

The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed. — Haruki Murakami

After everything happened with you and me, I tried to heal. I knew that I needed to forget you and move on. I hurt so much; everyday felt like a death sentence. I mourned you like you were dead and then, I met Leah. We were set up on a blind date and I remember feeling hope that day. It was the first day in a year that I felt hope. We took our time getting to know each other, I bought her a ring." He shot me a look to see if I remembered the iceberg.
"And then, all of a sudden I missed you again. I mean, I never stopped missing you, but this time it hit me hard. I couldn't go to sleep for a single night without seeing you in my dreams. I compared everything Leah did to everything I remembered about you. It was like the old wound opened itself up again and I was bleeding out my feelings for you." I close my eyes at his words. Words that I want to hear badly but that are making my heart ache so terribly I can barely breathe. — Tarryn Fisher

My mother is still battling alcoholism. — Patrick J. Kennedy

Lovely is admirable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

His hands had been reddened, as all men's hands have been, in the slaying before the foundation of the world; now, if he chose, he would dip them again in the same blood. 'Mercy,' he groaned ... — C.S. Lewis

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy