Mindell David Quotes & Sayings

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy. — Ajahn Chah

No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation. — Pope Benedict XVI

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us. — Simon Toyne

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage. — Philippa Gregory

robots are "only one software upgrade away" from full autonomy, as Scientific American has recently argued. — David A. Mindell

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose

Because love stands above Darkness and Light.
Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."
Because love is also Power.
And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it. — Sergei Lukyanenko

If you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way. — Etel Adnan

I was aware that it was unusual, in modern times, for me not to hate Aaron or resent him for all of his apparent transgressions against me. — Denise Weeks

Wars have a way of overriding the days just before them. In the looking back, there is such noise and gravity. But we are conditioned to forget. So thet the war may have importance, yes, but stil ... isn't the hidden machinery easier to see in the days leading up to the event. There are arrangements, things to be expedited ... and often the edges are apt to lift, briefly, and we see things we were not meant to ... — Thomas Pynchon

me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life - it's not worth living. — Christie Golden

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet. — Sandra Lee

Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney! — Charles Dickens

The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered ... Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip to living-each has an unsurpassed lilt which bursts from the deepest wellsprings of life. These are the realities found in the wilderness of the Great Smoky Mountains. — Harvey Broome