Mipham Mukpo Quotes & Sayings

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons. — Martin Buber

Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce. — William Butler Yeats

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death. — Seneca The Younger

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person. — Dan O'Brien

I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason I was up so early. — William Shakespeare

Responding to bereavement by trying to make a difference is certainly both understandable and admirable, but it doesn't give you good reason to raise money for one specific cause of death rather than any other. If that person had died in different circumstances it would have been no less tragic. What we care about when we lose someone close to us is that they suffered or died, not that they died from a specific cause. By all means, the sadness we feel at the loss of a loved one should be harnessed in order to make the world a better place. But we should focus that motivation on preventing death and improving lives per se, rather than preventing death and improving lives in one very specific way. Any other decision would be unfair on those we could have helped more. — William MacAskill

It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that. — Randy Alcorn

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond. — Ernest Hemingway,

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball) — Charles Barkley

I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back! — Odette Annable

I loved a maid as red as autumn [ ... ] with sunset in her hair. — George R R Martin

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.' — Robert Smith

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. — Adam Arkin