Maxines Gumbo Quotes & Sayings

The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in. — Frederick Lenz

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen. — Roger Ebert

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport. — Rory McIlroy

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain. — David Chalmers

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others. — Mark Twain

You could just hold them, couldn't you? You could sit close to them, nestle into them so you could hear the machine of them churning away. You could press your ear against that person's back, listening to the rhythm of them, knowing that you were both made of the same exact stuff. You could do things like that. — Carol Rifka Brunt

No matter what, always be yourself! — Greyson Chance

Always be true to yourself and follow your dreams! — LaDonna M. Cook