Poignance Define Quotes & Sayings

I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds. — Brad D. Smith

My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a bank. — Bill Maher

Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight. — Stephen Batchelor

it's hard to be spiritually strong and mentally alert when you are emotionally stressed or physically fatigued. — Rick Warren

There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse. — Lisa Cholodenko

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band. — Gary Wright

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher. — Confucius

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. — Vaclav Havel

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. — William Blake

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid. — Brad Goreski

What the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. — T. S. Eliot

Yet. I want to see the wild country again before I die, and the Mountains; but he is still in love with the Shire, with woods and fields and little rivers. — J.R.R. Tolkien