Shahbaz Ali Quotes & Sayings

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others — Matthieu Ricard

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om. — Eden Ahbez

Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her 78th book.
'All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it? — Kathleen Norris

It's very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles — Rebekah Brooks

But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself. — Martina Boone

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo. — Riccardo Tisci

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done. — Sophocles

The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity. — Taylor Swift

I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history. I was reminded of some famous lines of Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
I took the one less travled by,
And that has made all the difference.
As I recalled my own experience and development, I was impressed by the series of lucky accidents that determined the road I traveled.
> From "Lives of the Laureates" pg.67 — Milton Friedman

Lee went on, That's why I include myself. We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed - selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful - we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic - and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture. Can it be that our critics have not the key or the language of our culture? That's what we are, Cal - all of us. You aren't very different. — John Steinbeck

The typical human brain can hold about seven pieces of new information for less than 30 seconds! — John Medina

Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year. — Marie Lu

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference. — Taraka Larson

Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth. — David Suzuki