Shokooh Rafati Quotes & Sayings

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart. — Jack Kornfield

I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time ... they deserve none of mine. — Matt Dillahunty

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood. — Pablo Neruda

The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought. — Frederick Lenz

The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the first cold hours before the dawn of civilisation; the power that comes out of the wilderness and rides on the whirlwind and breaks the gods of stone; the power before which the eastern nations are prostrate like a pavement; the power before which the primitive prophets run naked and shouting, at once proclaiming and escaping from their god; the fear that is rightly rooted in the beginnings of every religion, true or false: the fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom; but not the end. — G.K. Chesterton

Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance. — John Barrasso

If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly. — Chogyam Trungpa

Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me." — Clark Gable

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened. — Noreena Hertz

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God. — Smokey Robinson

I'm never bored. — Jack Prelutsky

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower. — Georg Trakl