Queixas Asae Quotes & Sayings

Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it's dependent relation to others. Although it is difficult to say that merely reflecting on this will produce a profound spiritual realization, it will at least have some effect. Your mind will be more open. Something will begin to change within you. Therefore, even in the immediate term there is definitely a positive and beneficial effect in reversing these two attitudes and moving from self-centeredness to other-centeredness, from belief in self existence to belief in dependent origination. — Dalai Lama XIV

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young. — Andrew Nikiforuk

Homage he has from all - but none from me...
I battle it against him, as I battled in highest heaven - through all eternity,
And the unfathomable gulfs of hades, and the interminable realms of space,
And the infinity of endless ages... all, all will I dispute.
-Lucifer — George Gordon Byron

God's grace does not operate on a reward for works basis. It is much better than that. — Jerry Bridges

Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book out and I'm like this is going to be cool, I'm going to whoop on this guy now, so I studied the book and I go back and the guy crushes me again. — Maurice Ashley

Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. — Philip Roth

I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others. — Nikki Gil

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf. — Epicurus

I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm' and when one of the crew told me that there were plans for a movie, I went for it. That was in 1987 and I told (producer) Graham Burke I was going to be the Phantom. We had a laugh about that recently because you usually get what you deserve, not what you desire, and that is especially true in Hollywood! — Billy Zane

Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set. Nobody would know I had ever been in it. — Jean Rhys

And it wasn't just us. It wasn't just that we were high school, me a junior and you a senior, with our clothes all wrong for restaurants like this, too bright and too rumpled and too zippered and too stained and too slapdash and awkward and stretched and trendy and desperate and casual and unsure and baggy and sweaty and sporty and wrong. — Daniel Handler

The most important hour is always the present.
The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.
The most necessary work is always love. — Meister Eckhart

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. — Alexander Pope

You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find in three seconds on Wikipedia. — Richard Corliss

Love your enemies means love the ones that hate you, not love the ones you hate cause there is no way to have love if have hatred . — Brooke Bida