Mbsr Umass Quotes & Sayings

The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin. — Barbara Kingsolver

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock. — Lena Dunham

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. — Matthew Arnold

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort. — Myrtle Reed

Think of the things killing us as a nation: narcotic drugs, brainless competition, dishonesty, greed, recreational sex, the pornography of violence, gambling, alcohol, and the worst pornography of all
lives devoted to buying things, accumulation as a philosophy
all of these are addictions of dependent personalities. That is what our brand of schooling must inevitably produce. — John Taylor Gatto

I still have that fear, even now - that suddenly my very existence will be denied and, through no fault of my own, I'll be hurled into the night sea once more. Maybe that's why I haven't been able to form deep relationships with people. I always keep a distance between me and others." He — Haruki Murakami

White." He spoke with conviction and I knew he'd seen. "A thousand shades of white, from mist to snow to starlight. — Deborah Cooke

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life. — Bryant McGill

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit. — Jim Davis

Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around a heavy, square book. She unwrapped it and opened it very carefully, as if guilty secrets might fall from between its pages like pressed flowers. This was Harry's secret. She was a writer. — Margaret Mahy

One more thing, one more time. — Josh Sundquist

In general, we imagine rivers to be subject to a kind of dynamic equilibrium, largely stable geologic features, with processes like regional incision or subtle shifts in mountain building causing short- and medium-term variation around some slowly changing mean condition, but in fact it is far more common to see dramatic change over short periods, with long periods of stability between in what geologists refer to as 'dynamic metastable equilibrium.'
It is the same with families, memory, the history of a person's life, what we believe to be true. — Katharine Haake