Pooned Quotes & Sayings

What makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed. — Richard Brautigan

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves. — Mia Wasikowska

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation. — Brad Warner

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person. — Warren G. Bennis

We are all just illusions of what we want the world to believe about us, — A. Giannoccaro

Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated. — Joan D. Chittister

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect. — Swami Vivekananda

I never had a book get angry or yell at me, never had a book show disappointment in me or consider me stupid because I didn't understand a line or needed to reread a paragraph or didn't know a word, never had a book mock me, never had a book turn its back on me or slap me in the face or fire me from reading it or decide it was in love with a faster, more intelligent, handsomer reader, I never even had a book get bored with me, or question my logic, I never had a book look suddenly crestfallen because I shut it and left it on its own, I've never met a book too shy to come into the bathroom with me or under the covers, I never met a book that refused to read me to sleep. — Mark Frutkin

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. — Vernon Howard

The things by which our emotions can be moved - the shape of a flower or a Grecian urn, the way a baby grows, the way the wind brushes across your face, the way clouds move, their shapes, the way light dances on the water, or daffodils flutter in the breeze, the way in which the person you love moves their head, the way their hair follows that movement, the curve described by the dying fall of the last chord of a piece of music - all these things can be described by the complex flow of numbers.

That's not a reduction of it, that's the beauty of it. — Douglas Adams

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night. — Mike Birbiglia