Tabling Events Quotes & Sayings

With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is so, for we would otherwise have been faced with Celine Dion singing "My Liver Belongs to You" and movie houses playing The Liver Is a Lonely Hunter. Every Spanish love song that contains the word corazon, which is all of them, would contain the somewhat less lilting higado, and bumper stickers would proclaim, "I [liver symbol] my Pekingese. — Mary Roach

It is more difficult to love than to die. It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love. The heart is bigger than a mountain. One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mightly plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. — Ben Okri

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause. — Sydney J. Harris

In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous mistake, and that rather than that being a reason for depression or discouragement, it's actually the motivation. — Pema Chodron

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore. — Evan Dando

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself. — Albert Einstein

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. — Ira Glass

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough. — Aubrey Plaza

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness ... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are. — Barbara Brennan

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views. — Alan Dershowitz

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven. — Stella Young

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it. — Jack Kornfield