Leave The Baggage Behind Quotes & Sayings

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence. — Anthony Giddens

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community. — Wyclef Jean

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. — August Strindberg

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever. — Maya Angelou

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself. — Tom Cruise

Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities. — Amit Ray

Although 'to paint' means something like "to cause to be covered with paint," one does not 'paint a brush' when one dips it in the can, and it is hard to say with a straight face that "Michelangelo painted the ceiling" when he caused the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to be covered with paint. — Steven Pinker

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this. — Jenny Erpenbeck

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface. — Jimmy Carter

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride. — Leo Tolstoy

Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Lisabet Sarai

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition. — Max Allan Collins

You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. — Geoffrey West

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future. — Sue Augustine

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this? — Jimmy Buffett

Sugar," Beck interrupts my ruckus with a wink, "if chocolate is more fulfilling than sex, then someone isn't doing their job right. — Brooke Cumberland

You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind. — Jed Babbin