Nick Papagiorgio Quotes & Sayings

Higher education is an advantage, no longer a guarantee. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

We don't need guns, we got dogs! — T.A. Uner

Throughout life it is inevitable that we will experience both pain and pleasure. Learning how to handle them leads to harmony and happiness. In meditation, if we are unable to handle pain or boredom, then that pain or boredom becomes our master. Then we spend our entire life trying to avoid being bored or feeling pain. However if we can handle our mind, then we know that we can handle boredom and pain. — Sakyong Mipham

I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something. — Ellen DeGeneres

Culture feeds on the sap of economics, and a material surplus is necessary, so that culture may grow, develop and become subtle. — Leon Trotsky

Work is a shit way to spend your time and everyone knows it. — Stephen May

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator. — Benicio Del Toro

Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God. — Stephen L. Richards

Una furtiva lacrima had been the only really beautiful thing in her life. Wiping away her own tears she tried to sing what she heard. But her voice was as crude and out of tune as she was. When she heard it she started to cry. It was the first time she'd ever cried, she didn't know she had so much water in her eyes. She cried, blew her nose no longer knowing what she was crying about. She wasn't crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she'd accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling, there were more delicate existences and even a certain luxury of soul. — Clarice Lispector

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else. — Scott Bakula

Fathom curled his claws around the brown sphere and brought his snout close to it, feeling quite silly indeed. — Tui T. Sutherland

Returning is the movement of the Way. — Laozi

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard? — Marcus Aurelius

If we say that we have no sin,
We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
Why then belike we must sin,
And so consequently die.
Ay, we must die an everlasting death. — Christopher Marlowe

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life. — Brooks Atkinson