Noise Pollution Funny Quotes & Sayings

100 percent of the prayers I don't pray won't get answered. — Mark Batterson

When you have failed at being nice, you've actually succeeded in being mean. Success is everywhere if you know where to look for it. — Katina Ferguson

We should revel in tons and tons and tons of ideas. Some of them will manifest and lead to a drug discovery, and some will not. — Anne Wojcicki

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally. — Patricia Hewitt

Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows. — Lucian Blaga

Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there. — Stephen Levine

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother. — Theodore Roosevelt

Mindfulness can have a sobering effect on the restless, jittery psyche. The stiller and more focused it becomes, the more I am able to peer into the sources of my febrile reactivity, to catch the first stirring of hatred before it overwhelms me with loathing and spite, to observe with ironic detachment the conceited babbling of the ego, to notice at its inception the self-demeaning story that could tip me into depression. And — Stephen Batchelor

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand. — Rumi

It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that. — Brandi Carlile

A peaceful moment, to imagine being the only human presence among untamed nature, but Katherine's aching absence kept it from being perfect. Every step Layla took toward the west coast felt like a step away from the woman who'd inspired her to make the journey, like she was forsaking her old life for a new one that no longer included Katherine. — B.C. Burgess