Lord Buddha Vesak Quotes & Sayings

It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you're lucky and you stick it out. — Ruby Dee

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way. — Bennett Miller

2. How can our principles become dead, unless the impressions [thoughts] which correspond to them are extinguished? But it is in thy power continuously to fan these thoughts into a flame. I can have that opinion about anything, which I ought to have. If I can, why am I disturbed? The things which are external to my mind have no relation at all to my mind. Let this be the state of thy affects, and thou standest erect. To recover thy life is in thy power. Look at things again as thou didst use to look at them; for in this consists the recovery of thy life. — Marcus Aurelius

When you're born, they (God or little aliens or whoever) should send you into the world with a bunch of free passes. — Nicola Yoon

The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing. — Eric Woolfson

No."
"Why?"
"No one needs to know," I say.
"To know what?How long you've lasted?" Vick asks.
"To know anything about me," I say. — Ally Condie

I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino. — Lalaine

One day you'll wake up and find that the pain's still there but it doesn't hurt quite so much. — Sarra Manning

How careful she always was with books: they had been her companions, her entertainment, and her only window to the outside world. — Lisa Kleypas

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them. — Catherynne M Valente

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone — Martin Luther King Jr.

... my private thoughts, feelings I captured with a tortured mind and hammered into sentences I shoved into paragraphs, ideas I pinned together with punctuation marks that serve no function but to determine where one thought ends and another begins. — Tahereh Mafi

The real powers at play never take center stage. Don't follow the marionette, follow the strings. — William Ritter