Rinzai Meditation Quotes & Sayings

There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do. — Michael Winter

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours. — Barack Obama

Denny had been a little skeptical of her mother's fix-it ideas ever since the night her mother had fixed the shower head drip by putting a balloon over the nozzle. Getting hit by a giant, ice-cold water balloon when she'd stepped, half-asleep, into the shower the next morning had not been Denny's idea of a swell way to start the day. — Jackie French Koller

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain. — Giacomo Casanova

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way. — Geri Halliwell

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about. — Keith Jarrett

I'd learned my default mode was to perform. Even in small groups I feel like I have to be "on." But when I'm alone my energy comes back. When I'm alone I don't have to perform for anybody. — Donald Miller

I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners. — Cory Monteith

Alice's illness had turned her into the center of mass around which the rest of the family moved in anxious orbits, like unstable planets. — Lisa Kleypas

I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart. — Gucci Mane