Lappies Braai Quotes & Sayings

A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don't have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, however, clings to negative thoughts and feelings and, as a result, magnifies, intensifies, and sustains those emotions while the ego overlooks the subtle feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, adventure, love, and peace that come from Essence. If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful emotions, our lives would be transformed. — Gina Lake

Women are called the fairer sex. Are they just not as tan, or are they actually more reasonable? — Jarod Kintz

It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy - when they are treated fairly, decently, and with dignity than when they are used and taken for granted, when they feel like no more than a tiny cog in a giant corporate wheel. — Wayne D. Dosick

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks

Sometimes we think we know what we want, but we don't actually know what we need until we find it. — Ali McNamara

What do you do?" I ask.

"I live."

"I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the perfect answer. — Jewel E. Ann

Try to remember. Have you ever felt mercy in your heart where there was once hatred? Peace where there was once turmoil? Love where there was once greed and lust? Humiliation where there was once self-righteousness? — Vincent Cheung

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me. — Rachael Harris

Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them. — Jean Hegland

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction. — Steven Pinker