Sai Bulleh Shah Quotes & Sayings

What is this intermediate step? Just after we observe what others do and just before we feel some emotion about it, we tell ourselves a story. We add meaning to the action we observed. We make a guess at the motive driving the behavior. Why were they doing that? We also add judgment - is that good or bad? And then, based on these thoughts or stories, our body responds with an emotion. — Kerry Patterson

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. — John Milton

I cannot believe we had to read it in the paper - when we are your dearest school friends!" Lady Abernathy said sweetly.
"Yes, we were so close," Emma replied, just as sweetly. "Like England and China."
Lady Abernathy paused to puzzle over that. — Maya Rodale

I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing. — Taylor Schilling

It was the last town in what was then a civilized country. Once Tim asked his father what civilized meant. "Taxes," Big Ross said, and laughed - but not in a funny way. — Stephen King

My pastor mentioned Kierkegaard in a sermon only once, and it would be a long time before I discovered that there was a storied Christian who suffered from, and so in some way sanctioned, depression, rage, sarcasm, and despair - the diseases that took hold in adolescence, for which church offered no cure. — Carlene Bauer

The night has a thousand eyes. — John Lyly

Not all of my missions involve terrorists or the fate of the world. Some are far more simple and mundane. Like locating a teleporting cat. — Brandon Sanderson

All which is regarded as 'my', belongs to the non-Self. 'I' is the Self and 'my' is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying 'this is mine' in the worldly interactions, but the 'I', 'who am I?', must be decided from within. — Dada Bhagwan

Thus let me hold thee to my heart,
And every care resign:
And we shall never, never part,
My life-my all that's mine! — Oliver Goldsmith

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window. — Dejan Stojanovic

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it. — Margaret Heffernan

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us. — Haruki Murakami

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde