Shampas Pies Quotes & Sayings

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom. — Gautama Buddha

Kids are starting to dress the same, listen to the same music. I look at their Tumblrs and they're all into the same things. — Chaz Bundick

The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time. — Michael Dowd

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free. — Charles Tart

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience. — Bernard Iddings Bell

What we have," Robert tells us, "is not democracy. It is imitative democracy. We have all the external signs. We have elections. We have a parliament. We have legislation. All the accessories of democracy. But anyone with common sense here knows we live in an authoritarian state. Putin has learned that if he offers the accessories of democracy, his regime can be very hard to accuse. The regime does one thing very well: It doesn't listen. So there can be free speech, channels of communication. But normally in a democracy, those voices affect decision making. In this country that doesn't happen. — David Greene

Men tend to die when you slide steel beneath their skin and wiggle it around. Even priests. — Brian Staveley

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking. — Alvin Dark

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it. — Reese Witherspoon

Ralph Waldo Emerson could write (in The Conduct of Life, 1860): 'The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.' Mountains — Richard Fortey

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die. — Tom Waits

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? — James Alan Gardner

What else do I deserve?" One side of his lips tipped up. "Everything, baby, you deserve everything. — Jennifer L. Armentrout