Lo Bok Quotes & Sayings

It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us - and the key here is constant familiarity. The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, the more you consciously develop them, the more powerful they become. — Dalai Lama

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. — Friedrich Schiller

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men; ... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman. — Jerry Saltz

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new? — Theodore Roethke

I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would. — Bonnie Langford

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage. — Woody Allen

Remember,
a stranger once told you that the breeze
here is something worth writing poems about. — Shinji Moon

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented. — Kylie Minogue