Nicklen Seals Quotes & Sayings

Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late. — Robin Cook

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping. — Andrew Miller

There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Elise asked what nostalgic meant, and Jewel said, It's where you think the past was better than it really was, only because the present sucks so bad. — Hugh Howey

He has a funny look in his eyes as if to say, "Come off it, Shiva, I know what you are up to, I know what you are doing." And you say, "What, me?" So he looks at you in this funny way until finally you get the feeling that he sees all the way through you; and that all your selfishness and evil, nasty thoughts are transparent to his gaze. Then you have to try and alter them. He suggests that you practice the control of the mind, that you become interiorly silent, and that you give up selfish desires of the skin-encapsulated self. Then you may have some success in quieting your mind and in concentrating. But after that, he will throw a curve at you, which is: Are you not still desiring not to desire? Why are you trying to be unselfish? Well, the answer is, "I want to be on the side of the big battalions. I think it is going to pay off better to be unselfish than to be selfish. — Alan W. Watts

When the search for pleasure becomes obsessive, it holds us in thrall and keeps us from experiencing other satisfactions. Joy, on the other hand, increases our pleasure and helps us find fulfilment in any number of things, even at those times of life when physical pleasure has ebbed. — Pope Francis

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again. — Jeanne DuPrau

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. — Dorothy Parker

Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people. — Terry Pratchett

Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results. — Gary Keller

Because sometimes there's more worth in silence than noise. Sometimes everything you need to know is contained in that small quiet space. Sometimes we get so caught up in distraction and noise and seeking other people's approval we forget the quiet seed of truth that lives in our hearts. But just because we fail to tune in to it, doesn't mean it's not there. — Alyson Noel