Outsidership Quotes & Sayings

If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is a more complex phenomenon. Once you have become confident that the body listens to you, you will have a new trust in yourself. Now even the mind can listen to you. It will take a little longer with the mind, but it happens. — Rajneesh

And this tenderness was not like
That which a certain poet
At the beginning of the century called true
And, for some reason, quiet. No, not at all-
It rang out, like the first waterfall,
It crunched like the crust of bluish ice
And it prayed with a swanlike voice,
And it broke down right before our eyes. — Anna Akhmatova

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ... — James Sallis

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother? — L. Tom Perry

Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said. — Miriam Toews

The whole gospel is contained in Christ. — John Calvin

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. — John C. Maxwell

He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work — Swami Vivekananda

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it ... — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention. — Mitch Kapor

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. — Lewis Mumford

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness. — Aisha Tyler

Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack. — Anonymous