Shimokawa Oten Quotes & Sayings

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler. — Sachin Tendulkar

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.' — Peter Higgs

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working. — Jane Hirshfield

Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse. — Swami Vivekananda

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories. — Paulo Coelho

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. — James Taylor

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death. — Herman Melville

We are born free, but we're taught to obey orders. — Marty Rubin

There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being a reforming judge or prison governor (I think that the UK penal system is a disgrace) - but it's fantasy. — Mary Beard

Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the bliss of satiation, even as his spirit starves. No, Pearl did not hate. Life was a negotiation between the expected and the unexpected. One made do. Draconus — Steven Erikson

Don't pretend to comfort me, my friend.
I might also pretend to not let you down. — Toba Beta

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality. — Clare Short

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork. — Terry McMillan

It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you. — Frederick Lenz