Ostberg Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn. — Rajneesh

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die. — Charles Dickens

It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization. — Karl Marx

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. — Henry James Sumner Maine

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. — Jodi Picoult

Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven. — Robert Pollok

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught. — Lynn Davies

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey

To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us. — Lazarus Of Bethany

I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to "curtail the friendship". — Elisabeth Elliot

Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be. — Timothy Carey

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud. — Ian McLagan

On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding. — Roger Bart