Meditative Story Quotes & Sayings

You have heard the expression 'love is blind'"
"I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before — J.D. Robb

I started doing commercials in 2008 right after we released Death Race, and the reason was that I spent two years prepping Death Race and building all these custom rigs to shoot cars in the most dynamic and exciting way. — Paul W. S. Anderson

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head. — Ewan McGregor

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored. — John Wooden

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?"
"No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself. — W. Somerset Maugham

Closure. That's probably the most unrealistic word in the English vocabulary. It's up there with heartbreak, pain, loss, and abandonment, all these things that you're supposed to get over and mend and heal but really, do you ever get over those moments? — Katie Kacvinsky

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use. — Julianna Margulies

It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing. — Nelson Mandela

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you. — Lucinda Roy

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter. — Pete Postlethwaite

The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer. — Milan Kundera

I am an actress first, a singer second. — Grace Jones

The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object. — Aldous Huxley

a lot of books to read but time is limited — Kohta Hirano