Meredith Drowns Quotes & Sayings

It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big. — Xavier Niel

(It is surprising how refreshing this feels. Being judged by what you do, and not what you are.) Lately — N.K. Jemisin

O thou who art the sparrow's friend," he said, "have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove, descend and roost on Godric here so that a heart may hatch in him at last. Amen — Frederick Buechner

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way? — Walter Brueggemann

I'm a horrible public speaker. — Bill Condon

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page. — David Morrell

May the new era be an era of liberty and respect for everyone
including writers! Only through liberty and respect for culture can Europe be saved from the cruel days of which Montesquieu spoke in the Esprit des lois: "Thus, in the days of fables, after the floods and deluges, there came forth from the soil armed men who exterminated each other." Boook XXXII, Chapter XXIII. — Curzio Malaparte

We are similar. I miss you and you miss my call. — Suman Pokhrel

Historians have spoken of a 'crisis' , but its most obvious expressions were in fact surmounted. The changes Romans carried out or accepted by the year 300 gave a new lease of life to much of classical Mediterranean civilization. they may even have been decisive in ensuring that it would in the end transmit so much of itself to the future. — J.M. Roberts

I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing. — Joe Manganiello

Girls who fall for game do so because they never had a real man like their father to show them different. — Lexxi