Tchentchen Quotes & Sayings

One of the cardinal features of the Buddha's teaching is that all life, however solid it may seem to be, and all things, however separate they may seem to be, are in a state of flux. That is to say that the world we live in doesn't consist so much of things or entities as it consists of process. Everything is in a constant state of flowing pattern. By way of illustration you might say that it's something like the flowing pattern you see when you look at smoke: a dancing, constantly changing arabesque of pattern; flowing, flowing, all the time. Or that the substance of life is something like water, which I can hold in my hand so long as I cup it gently, but if I clutch at the water, I immediately lose it. — Alan W. Watts

It's not something easily done alone and there is no room for error. — Mark T. Barnes

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish. — Jim Broadbent

If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead. — Glenn Beck

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. — Marilyn Vos Savant

God, it was quite possible that Derek was the strongest man she'd ever known. Her gaze ran over the T-shirt that did nothing to hide the muscles of his shoulders and arms, then downward to how those blue jeans hung on his lean hips. He was definitely the sexiest man she'd ever known.
And she wanted him. — Laura Kaye

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them. — J.X. Burros

In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. — Jerry Spinelli

How tragic it will be if we don't each come to grips with our own personal potential and learn the role the Lord has in mind for us. How sad if we waste one more day with a lack of commitment and not meet the measure of our creation. — Glenn L. Pace

There will never be anything more exciting or wonderful than being close to God. — Rick Joyner

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze. — Andrew Klavan

Claire hates you now. She believes me. She will never, ever take you back.
We are never ever ever getting back together. Taylor Swift. How many times had Dee played that song after she caught Heath Carmichael cheating — Karin Slaughter

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society ... but for me and no one else, education means making creators ... You have to make inventors, innovators ... not conformists — Jean Piaget