Plz Smile Quotes & Sayings

How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make ... what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close. — Moss Hart

First, we must see that our negative actions arise due to prejudice and erroneous judgments. The discrimination that labels some as 'friends' and others as 'enemies' must be perceived as the root of our problems. We need to see that we label people and things in terms of our own desires, our own wishes. These wishes are transitory. The labeled objects are, themselves, impermanent. Such labeling is therefore very confused and false, yet it persists, and we continue to create suffering for ourselves. To avoid this, we need to develop equanimity for all beings suffering in samsara, tossed to and fro by their fleeting delusions, just like ourselves. — Zongtrul Losang Tsondru

Professor Winthrop delivered an influential lecture at Harvard proposing the earthquake might have been caused by heat and pressure below the surface of the earth. With God's help, of course, but God comes off as an engineer instead of a hothead vigilante.) — Sarah Vowell

I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged. — Aaron Koblin

I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the ones reaping the benefits. We've sold out the rest of life on earth for convenience, creature comforts, and cheap consumer goods, and it's appalling. I'm sickened by this bargain. — Lierre Keith

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed. — Ken Follett

Whenever a society wants to demonize a particular group, it prohibits them from marrying. — Sheila Kuehl

I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers. — Donald Newhouse

I feel a complete protection on my pilgrimage. God is my shield. There are no accidents in the Divine Plan nor does God leave us unattended. No one walks so safely as those who walk humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith. — Peace Pilgrim

Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. — Patti Smith Just Kids

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. — Theodore Parker

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

You never know how much you need music until you don't have it. I missed it so much my heart hurt. — Damien Echols