Orientspiration Quotes & Sayings

[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like. — Barbara Bergmann

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away. — James Stockdale

A series of controlled experiments and field studies in organizations shows that when teams engage in conflict over ideas in an atmosphere of mutual respect, they develop better ideas and perform better . — Robert I. Sutton

The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening. — Ram Dass

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children. — Charlotte Mason

Regret is something you've got to just live with, you can't drink it away. You can't run away from it. You can't trick yourself out of it. You've just got to own it. — Anthony Bourdain

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thy friendship makes us fresh. — William Shakespeare

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them. — Jennifer Lynch

Hunter kissed me as if he was going to hell, and he had this one kiss left and he was going to make the most of it. — Chelsea M. Cameron

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding. — Robin Hobb

Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do. — Francesca Woodman

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with. — Henry Louis Gates

Or, because we are not yet able to predict which of our children will become violent as adults, and may never be, that $3 million could have been used to provide seven struggling young people, including Isaiah, with once-a-week counseling over the same period. This is a core idea behind the so-called social safety net. Catch those in need, not knowing which of them, without help, will become much more destructive in the future and much more expensive to the rest of society. — Eli Sanders