Rigdzin Ling Quotes & Sayings

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen. — John Cale

The scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend. — Ron Lizzi

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off. — Thomas Frank

In The Pale King, David Foster Wallace has his narrator remark that "it was a little bit like a for-profit company, my family, in that you were pretty much only as good as your last sales quarter. — William Deresiewicz

The state is the nursing mother of human culture. — Joseph Alexander Leighton

On the birth of his son after having had two daughters: I finally got it right. — Jack Nicholson

My parents do not limit themselves to worrying about things that have actually happened. Dreams are also fair game. I often get phone calls with detailed descriptions of a dream, followed by So naturally, I had to call to make sure you were okay and there wasn't a reason why I dreamed of you trapped in a canoe with a blue turtle. — Firoozeh Dumas

But then again, didn't all marriages carry thousands of hurts? Didn't husbands and wives injure each other all the time, leaving wounds both big and small, with snapped words or forgotten anniversaries or emotional buttons deliberately pushed? But thousands of kindnesses existed in marriages, too. The important thing was that the kindnesses triumphed over the hurts. — Sarah Pekkanen

Suburbia: a place where they cut down trees and name streets in their memory. — Kelley Armstrong

Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. — Anonymous

Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off — Sofia Vergara

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power. — Parker Palmer