Shadell Payne Quotes & Sayings

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. — Wanda Sykes

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it. — Albert Einstein

Loving-kindness - maitri - toward ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means that we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to change ourselves. Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That's the ground, that's what we study, that's what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest. Sometimes — Pema Chodron

There are things in life you hope to do some day - like ride in a hot air balloon or go to Paris- and there are things that you know you will never do because, in a nutshell, the desire isn't there. — Alice J. Wisler

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. — Angela Carter

The world is a gawking four-year-old. — Adrian Barnes

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose — Bill Bryson