Scheibler Construction Quotes & Sayings

Once I had an opportunity to talk with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, about the fact that I was not able to do my practice properly. I had just started the vajrayana practices and I was supposed to be visualizing. I couldn't visualize anything. I tried and tried but there was just nothing at all; I felt like a fraud doing the practice because it didn't feel natural to me. ( ... ). So he encouraged me by saying that as long as you have these kinds of doubts, your practice will be good. — Pema Chodron

Mom's going to love you," I assure her. "You'll see."

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Mom hates her.

Or at least, she's doing a good job of hiding her love. — Elle Kennedy

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good. — Gayle Forman

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest He died. — Suzanne Weyn

if you're with someone secure, they nurture you into a more secure stance. — Amir Levine

The idea of holiness is so central to biblical teaching that it is said of God, "Holy is his name" (Luke 1:49). His name is holy because He is holy. He is not always treated with holy reverence. His name is tramped through the dirt of this world. It functions as a curse word, a platform for the obscene. That the world has little respect for God is vividly seen by the way the world regards His name. No honor. No reverence. No awe before Him. — R.C. Sproul

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't. — Kevin Pietersen

You're pregnant?" I can't even believe the words I'm saying as I pull her toward me, and onto my lap. — K. Bromberg

Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed. — Rabindranath Tagore

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship. — Mark Twain

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow". — James Alan Gardner

Speaking of high-end shoe designers, in 2011 it was fascinating to see the design company of Christian Louboutin try to stop the company Yves Saint Laurent from producing high heels with red soles, claiming that Louboutin was the originator of the red sole. Louboutin lost, and I was glad. He was not the first person to paint a sole, and I am wary of patenting a color, like Tiffany blue. Why should we grant that entire history to Louboutin and say there are no predecessors and should be no successors? — Tim Gunn

... * to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches. — Sylvia Plath