Tamaas Irsen Quotes & Sayings

Which are you? ... competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares ... ?
With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent? — Seth Godin

That's him!" he said. "That's the one!"
"Is it, indeed?" Inspector Hewitt asked, as he lifted the cap from my head and took the gown from my shoulders with the gentle deference of a valet.
The little man's pale blue eyes bulged visibly in their sockets.
"Why, it's only a girl!" he said.
I could have slapped his face. — Alan Bradley

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all. — Margaret Halsey

Who has magnificent self-confidence
And fears nothing that exists?
The man who has attained to truth
And lives free of error. — Dalai Lama

Life wasn't about doubt, because if it was, we'd never get anything done. — Aishabella Sheikh

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

I am smiling a great smile. The smile of a man who fucked with his car and didn't break it. — Andy Weir

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.. — Charles Baudelaire

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. — Confucius

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends. — Benjamin Franklin

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. — Tommy Manville

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves. — Thomas Brooks

Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about! — Jodie Sweetin

I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally. — Neil Farber

Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind. — Frederick Lenz