Mipham Chogyal Quotes & Sayings

I am only as good as my children are. — Michelle Obama

You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path. — Jay Woodman

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better. — Chang-rae Lee

Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle. — Charles Perrault

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force. — Hannah Arendt

No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger. — Jane Seymour

Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts — Nelson Mandela

From now on, she was Juliette Gervaise, code name the Nightingale. — Kristin Hannah

Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk. — Eugene Mirman

Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief. — Helen Fisher

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime. — Gresham Barrett

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future. — Jurgen Moltmann

In modern marriage, then, what was once a difference of work became a division of work. And in this division the household was destroyed as a practical bond between husband and wife. It was no longer a condition, but only a place. It was no longer a circumstance that required, dignified, and rewarded the enactment of mutual dependence, but the site of mutual estrangement. Home became a place for the husband to go when he was not working or amusing himself. It was the place where the wife was held in servitude. A sexual difference is not a wound, or it need not be; a sexual division is. And it is important to recognize that this division - this destroyed household that now stands between the sexes - is a wound that is suffered inescapably by both men and women. — Wendell Berry

There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account
Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere; a sense of suffocation, anxiety, and above all, that terrible state of existence which the nervous experience when the senses are keenly living and awake and meanwhile the powers of thought lie dormant. — Edgar Allan Poe