Mipham Rinpoche Quotes & Sayings

Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money. — Frankie Boyle

Is there not perhaps a contradiction between our feeling of freedom and the rigor, as we now understand it, with which things operate in the world? — Carlo Rovelli

The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts. — Randy Carlyle

Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These" - she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm - "are my friends."
Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests."
Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. "Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?"
"Even then." Magnus's hand shot out, so fast it was barely a blur. He plucked the stele out of Jace's hand - Clary hadn't even realized he was holding it - and held it up. Jace looked faintly abashed. "As for this," Magnus said, sliding it into Jace's jeans pocket, "keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter. — Cassandra Clare

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision. — Edward Hirsch

We all give meaning to each other's lives. As long as we live. — Charles Merrill

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness. — Sharon Salzberg

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling. — Norman Vincent Peale

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese? — Rick Riordan

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant. — Jonathan Haidt

Creativity doesn't come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books - long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions. — Joshua Rogers

the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast. — Marian Engel

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview. — Mitt Romney

When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue. — Sakyong Mipham

I'm not a what-if and could-have person. I'm happy with my decisions. — Kajol