Masazumi Chaya Quotes & Sayings

As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to the breath again and again we start to dissolve their power. We develop a space between experience and our identification with it, thereby weakening the process that creates habits in the first place. — Martine Batchelor

This victory over excessive religious influence and excessive secularism is often lost in the clatter of contemporary cultural and political strife. Looking back to the Founding is neither an exercise in nostalgia nor an attempt to deify the dead, but a bracing lesson in how to make a diverse nation survive and thrive by cherishing freedom and protecting faith. And faith and freedom are inextricably linked: It is not for priests or pastors or presidents or kings to compel belief, for to do so trespasses on each individual's God-given liberty of mind and heart. If the Lord himself chose not to force obedience from those he created, then who are men to try? There — Jon Meacham

Though the growing may be difficult, God will be glorified at the end of every righteous man's story. — Bodie Thoene

Smart stupid. Stupid smart. — Michael Grant

Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel. — Charmaine Smith Ladd

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit. — Elizabeth Gilbert

He was crying in there, making woman gestures. — Mike Tyson

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it. — Jean Thompson

I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I felt that only life after life, life after life could satisfy my eagerness, my vigour, and my curiosity. — W. Somerset Maugham

The hands on the shoulder, then the hug.The mouths that find each other through the tears. — S.J. Watson

The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt. — Chris Pratt

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential. — Tara Brach

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life. — Marisol Nichols