Maligner Quotes & Sayings

Buddhism and science share a fundamental reluctance to postulate a transcendent being as the origin of all things. — Dalai Lama XIV

I really believe in having projects which in fact can't be carried out, or which are so simple that anyone could work them out. I once made four spots on the map of Holland, without knowing where they were. Then I found out how to get there and went to the place and took a snapshot. Quite stupid. Anybody can do that. — Jan Dibbets

You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat. — Mike Moreno

They call her love, love, love, love, love. She is love, and she is all I need. — Parachute Band

Combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. — Robert Adams

I can't altogether tell myself, Lillian. It's not wholly a matter of the calendar. It's the feeling that I've put a great deal behind me, where I can't go back to it again - and I don't really wish to go back. The way would be too long and too fatiguing. — Willa Cather

Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more. — Holly Lisle

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered. — Pema Chodron

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden. — Van Morrison

I couldn't even begin to guess how old he was. Maybe thirty. Or three hundred. When you're eleven, anyone older is just old. — T.J. Klune

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be. — Arthur Schopenhauer

People would say that if the Rum Preacher was all that stood between Heaven and Hell, then everybody had better stock up on asbestos. — Marlon James

What takes us back to the past are the memories.
What brings us forward is our dreams. — Jeremy Irons

To he "over-choiced" with thirty different kinds of bread does indeed develop the shopper's awareness of differentiation and sense of taste. However, from the ego that is becoming dependent on such a surplus of choice, it also takes away the time and energy for other life pursuits. The ego is diverted and, with the help of the world of consumer goods, "turned in on itself" (bomo incur-vatus in se ipsum), as the tradition used to depict the sinner.
The least to he learned from the tradition of mysticism is that becoming empty in a world of surplus, learning to switch off, and limiting oneself are small steps in the liberation from consumerism, and that perhaps freedom cannot he imagined without letting go. — Dorothee Solle