Karmapas Quotes & Sayings

This life came so close to never happening.. — David Benioff

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory,
where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth. — Brunonia Barry

We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it. — Allegra Goodman

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us! — Douglas Fairbanks

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use. — Johnny Weir

Bursting our belief bubble is an emotional experience we are conditioned to avoid, even if the belief itself is false. — Gary Van Warmerdam

Imagine for a moment that you were free of all the expectations in your life. What would you do? How would you live your life with no one watching? What would your future look like? — Kim Holden

She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today. — Kristin Cashore

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in. — Christina Ricci

I have tried in my way to be free. — Leonard Cohen