Those Necessary Thorns Quotes & Sayings

We were young and the focus on human suffering gave our retreats gravitas. But suffering is not the goal, it is the beginning of the path. Now in the retreat I teach, I also encourage participants to awaken to their innate joy. From the very beginning I encourage them to allow the moments of joy and well-being to deepen, to spread throughout their body and mind. Many of us are conditioned to fear joy and happiness, yet joy is necessary for awakening. As the Persian mystic Rumi instructs us, 'When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with roses and jasmine. — Jack Kornfield

telephone, "Myriam's not my wife! This - " he handed — Donna Tartt

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country. — Marek Hlasko

...and I never allowed another human being to touch me in intimacy again. — Myrna Lamb

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear. — Nancy Duarte

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Wait, were you eavesdropping on my conversation with the duke? That's very rude."

"Is it? Half of the plays in the world contain eavesdropping. I assumed it was a common practice. — Sabrina Jeffries

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere. — A.A. Milne

Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories. — Max Brooks

Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival. — Jhonen Vasquez

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars ... These were my reminders ... my necessary thorns. — Sabrina Childress

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is. — Edward Gorey

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much. — Nigel Mansell

I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other. — Jane Wiedlin

I'm working hard every day to attain all of my goals. Winning the Super Bowl is obviously at the top of that list. — Chad Ochocinco

Life is about loving it not only living it. — Debasish Mridha

It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker. — Criss Jami

I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader. — Wesley Clark