Padmasambhava Statue Quotes & Sayings

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you. — Kimora Lee Simmons

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance. — Rumi

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth. — John Pilger

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. — Maria Montessori

When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland.
-'City of Robots',1986 — Umberto Eco

Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons. — Jentezen Franklin

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A love one week tender, and the world was made bright with him. — Lauren Groff

Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey. — Urijah Faber

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations ... I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian. — Martin Luther

Is there no way you could just pull your bottom lip over your head and swallow? — Suzanne Wright

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would call on me sometimes in the evenings instead of running about London with his fellow-clerks; and before long, speaking of himself as a — Rudyard Kipling

It's always easier to pretend you know something than it is to learn about it. It's always easier to be cute than it is to be rigorous. It is easier to talk trash than it is to practice the humility of the serious student. — Stan Goff