Spartina Purses Quotes & Sayings

Equanimity's strength derives from a combination of understanding and trust. It is based on understanding that the conflict and frustration we feel when we can't control the world doesn't come from our inability to do so but rather from the fact that we are trying to control the uncontrollable. — Sharon Salzberg

In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons. — Max Weber

Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That's why I write a blog. And I read it, too. — Roseanne Barr

Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate! — Raimbaut De Vaqueyras

The only thing to do is simply continue
is that simple
yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do
can you do it
yes, you can because it is the only thing to do — Frank O'Hara

Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them. — Edwidge Danticat

But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden. — Simone De Beauvoir

We did something this year that was not based on animosity. — Nikki Sixx

How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves. — Karen Quan

Prayer changes the person who prays. — Chris Fabry