Spielvogel Franklin Quotes & Sayings

The forms of the central and surrounding deities ... should not be protruding like a clay statue or cast image, yet neither should they be flat like a painting. In contrast, they should be apparent, yet not truly existent, like a rainbow in the sky or the reflection of the moon in a lake. They should appear as though conjured up by a magician. Clear appearance involves fixing the mind one-pointedly on these forms with a sense of vividness, nakedness, lucidity, and clarity. — Jigme Lingpa

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges — G-Dragon

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work. — Paul LePage

As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan. — Rowena Cherry

I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died. — William Faulkner

You can't let the uncertainty of tomorrow interfere with the joy of today, — J.A. Konrath

The vocation of psychotherapy confers a few unexpected fringe benefits on its practitioners, and the following is one of them. It impels participation in a process that our modern world has all but forgotten: sitting in a room with another person for hours at a time with no purpose in mind but attending. As you do so, another world expands and comes alive to your senses
a world governed by forces that were old before humanity began. — Thomas Lewis

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder. — Matt Groening

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic ... — Dean Koontz

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I outwardly promote, just like I don't outwardly promote that I have green eyes and blonde hair. It's a part of who I am. I love the richness of the culture I grew up within. — Joanna Garcia

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. — Avicenna

Trap. Horrible trap. At one's birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of this body. Bad enough. Then we bring a baby here. The terms of the trap are compounded. That baby also must depart. All pleasures should be tainted by that knowledge. But hopeful dear us, we forget. Lord, what is this? — George Saunders

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds! — Nikki Sixx

Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned. — Massimo Pigliucci