Meritoriously Define Quotes & Sayings

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time. — Chuck Palahniuk

Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.
The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial. — Thich Nhat Hanh

No. I wouldn't screw Duke with someone else's ten foot pole. — Debra Anastasia

They were not brave enough to accept her as she came.
She made her own path where she found herself,
she followed it to her own people. — Tina J. Richardson

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover. — Beth Moore

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen. — Keegan Connor Tracy

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. — Mason Cooley

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. — Gustav Mahler

Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation. — Rajneesh

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.' — Nicolas Berggruen

Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and create an internal state of resonance. In such a state, the self is able to alter its constraints by directly reducing the input from interactions with others. (p. 235) — Daniel J. Siegel

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. It is the control center of most homes-more ubiquitous and more controlling than Orwell's Big Brother — R. Kent Hughes

Once you've been touched by the land, the wind never blows so cold again, because your love files the edges off it. — W.P. Kinsella

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize. — Vincent De Paul

And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on. — Vikram Chandra