Schmokers Quotes & Sayings

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. - BUDDHA — Gay Hendricks

Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data. — Hans Selye

I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations. — Julia Pierson

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty. — Stefan Molyneux

Hard times always lead to something great. — Betsey Johnson

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

Did my mother hum to me when I was little? Did she touch me, hold me, fill me with her noise and her thoughts? This loneliness I feel is of the womb, born by women. I was sixteen when they all died and I thought I understood this loss, but it comes to me that I didn't know what women gave to the world. It wasn't about their lips, their eyes or the gentle quality of their voices. It was about the way that all men are a part of them. And now we are part of nothing. — Aliya Whiteley

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS — Lois McMaster Bujold

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness. — A. J. Jacobs

Well, it's not the amount of money you spend, but how you decide to spend it that matters. "Every day spending choices unleash a cascade of biological and emotional effects that are detectable right down to saliva," reports Harvard's Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton in their brilliant 2013 book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending. — Anthony Robbins

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind. — John Tillotson

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction. — Stedman Graham

When you're here, an i in the Ocean, you're no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you're here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive, that you are. — Jean-Pierre Weill