Skandhas Five Quotes & Sayings

I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have ... I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so much, in a way that I've never loved anyone, including myself. Also, I used to spend a lot of time alone, but he's this incredibly social kind of guy, so all of a sudden I'm always having people in and out of my house. It's changed the way I feel as a citizen of the world. And it's really important to me to feel good about what I'm working on, to justify the number of hours I'd have to be away from him. — Jennifer Connelly

When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used. — Dogen

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character. — Romola Garai

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz. — Ryan Reynolds

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art. — Javier Bardem

An actress friend of mine shared a great trick. She told me to stick my tongue behind my teeth when I smile to keep from over-smiling. If you smile without doing it, sometimes your gums show a little too much. It's an actor's trick! — Jessica Chastain

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed. — Charles R. Swindoll

'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of. — Lapo Elkann

The key is to find your own personal spiritual balance."

from "Living Beyond the Five Senses — Teresa DeCicco

Don't look back, it has already past. Don't look forward, it has yet to happen. Live in the now, exactly where you're supposed to be. — Rebecca Donovan

I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision. — Thomas Kuhn

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. — Doug Larson

Alas, but you do not recognize one thing, Monsieur le Docteur, one thing that you will find very difficult to comprehend. The twelfth century was quite different from today, different in a most special way. You see, the entire world believed in magic, and this affected things. It altered the world we perceived, everyone perceived, mortal and vampire alike. You will not be able to accept this, but it altered the very laws of physics. Magic was a little more real. — Michael Talbot

He who coordinates his thoughts with his actions controls his own destiny." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey