Motoaki Shono Quotes & Sayings

In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation. — Frederick Lenz

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is impossible to conceive of many without one. — Plato

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life. — Leston Havens

Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second. — Keith Olbermann

I am scared of becoming a mother. — Liv Tyler

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim? — Arabella Weir

I shouldn't be here," I appeal to the captain, wondering if I've told him this before. "I have midterms and papers due and dirty clothes I never picked up from my bedroom floor, and I have friends, lots of friends. — Neal Shusterman

The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation. — Susie Dent

From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the sphere rotates, and how within a few hours it shows all its sides successively ... and we shall observe various points on the surface of the Earth for several minutes and from different sides very closely. This picture is so majestic, attractive and infinitely varied that I wish with all my soul that you and I could see it. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. — Vince Lombardi

I don't know how to talk to people. Social rules are difficult to understand as they keep changing. I never know what people expect from me. — Tina J. Richardson

I really like to cook. I used to do it lots for Mom, who's almost as useless as you, and it means I can practice describing all the different dishes. That always makes narratives seem less repetitive - and you can use them as metaphors, too. — Stephfordy Mayo

I don't believe you. You're a liar. Play it fucking loud! — Bob Dylan

I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox. — Anna Freeman