Lafayette La Quotes & Sayings

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household. — Tony Visconti

Look or be devoured. — George R R Martin

To stop the drug traffic is not the best way to prevent people from using drugs. The best way is to practice the Fifth Precept and to help others practice. Consuming mindfully is the intelligent way to stop ingesting toxins into our consciousness and prevent the malaise from becoming overwhelming. Learning the art of touching and ingesting refreshing, nourishing, and healing elements is the way to restore our balance and transform the pain and loneliness that are already in us. To do this, we have to practice together. The practice of mindful consuming should become a national policy. It should be considered true peace education ... Those who are destroying themselves, their families, and their society by intoxicating themselves are not doing it intentionally. Their pain and loneliness are overwhelming, and they want to escape. They need to be helped, not punished. Only understanding and compassion on a collective level can liberate us (78-79). — Thich Nhat Hanh

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. — Frank A. Clark

On hearing that she was to continue to act as Malcolm Sage's secretary, Miss Gladys Norman had done a barn-dance across the room, her arrival at the door synchronising with the appearance of Malcolm Sage from without. It had become a tradition at Department Z that "M.S." could always be depended upon to arrive at the most embarrassing moment of any little dramatic episode; but it was equally well-known that he possessed a "blind-side" to his vision. They called it "the Nelson touch. — Herbert Jenkins

But grant me from time to time - if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil - grant me the sight, but one glance of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, mighty, triumphant, something still capable of arousing fear! Of a man who justifies man, of a complementary and redeeming lucky hit on the part of man for the sake of which one may still believe in man! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The three characters used for the word "autism" in Japanese signify "self," "shut" and "illness. — Naoki Higashida

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason. — K.J. Parker

In the collective psyche it is being understood ... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion. — Tara Brach

I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game. — Pete Wentz

Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America — Todd Park

No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life — Nobuhiro Watsuki

Endlessly amused by people's minds. — Daniel Kahneman