Squaring A Foundation Quotes & Sayings

You yourself must earnestly practise, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path — Gautama Buddha

When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky. — Debasish Mridha

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything ... I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year? — Carrie Fisher

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through. — John Galsworthy

Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity (RDMCC) is a registered charity no. 1137409. The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (RDMSC) is a registered charity no. 1085853. The Roald Dahl Charitable — Roald Dahl

In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day, since we're taking other people's shekels to do it, and their work is being able to make a return out of it, it forces you to consider the fact that you're doing it for other people. The whole construct is built around the assumption that it's going to get shared, and that someone else is going to find value in it - entertainment, catharsis, enlightenment, or whatever. — Edward Norton

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. — Frederick William Robertson

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we
even our poets and musicians and inventors
never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator — C.S. Lewis

I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway? — Iain M. Banks

Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship. — Louise Hay

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop. — Sxip Shirey

When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens. — Thomas G. Stemberg

Millions of people have lived on the earth, and we don't know even their names. Accept that simple fact - you are here for only a few days and then you will be gone. These few days are not to be wasted in hypocrisy, in fear. These days have to be rejoiced. — Osho