Shermel Williams Quotes & Sayings

What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day. — Taisen Deshimaru

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere. — George Monbiot

Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college. — Jean Chatzky

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart ... Delve into yourself for a deep answer — Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film. — Javier Camara

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes. — Ashley Tisdale

Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being. — Andrei Tarkovsky

The ideal story should begin innocently like a fairy-tale, be frightening like a nightmare in the middle, and conclude sadly like a love story ending in separation. — Orhan Pamuk

I am honored and humbled by the fine reviews my new book "Why We Lover Serial Killers" is receiving. — Scott A. Bonn

I'm a reasonably articulate individual. — Amanda Marshall

God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives ... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never. — Mother Angelica