Kodo Sawaki Roshi Quotes & Sayings

Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements. — Gene Sharp

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. — Giacomo Leopardi

When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry. When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation. If you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate! — Rick Warren

Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution. — Michael Crichton

To make a muscle grow, you must force it to go beyond its capabilities. The most potent way to apply that force is to train to failure. Training to failure means ... the muscles are forced to grow stronger and bigger — Nasser El Sonbaty

The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate. — Frederick Lenz

Vaughn raised an eyebrow at their guarded expressions. "What, do I smell like wolf now?" He sniffed at his arm. "Nope. I smell like my gorgeous Red." A slow smile as he mentioned his mate and walked in. — Nalini Singh

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence. — Pierre Soulages

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists. — Phyllis Schlafly

We are poison to one another, a dangerous brew of lust and lies that threatens to obliterate us and anyone in our path.
--Novak — Suzanne Steele

Some things need to be broken to become stronger. — Nalini Singh

Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend. — Edward Gibbon

The things you see when you're not carrying a gun — Tyne O'Connell

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative. — Sienna Miller