Tohajiilee Breaking Quotes & Sayings

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are. — Jaggi Vasudev

For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer. — Anna Maxwell Martin

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You and I once fancied ourselves birds, and we were happy even when we flapped our wings and fell down and bruised ourselves, but the truth is that we were birds without wings. You were a robin ad I was a blackbird, and there were some who were eagles, or vultures, or pretty goldfinches, but none of us had wings.
For birds with wings nothing changes; they fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small.
But we are always confined to earth, no matter how much we climb to the high places and flap our arms. Because we cannot fly, we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek, and then, after all that, the years go by, the mountains are levelled, the valleys rise, the rivers are blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea. — Louis De Bernieres

I even heard that they can bring people back from the dead."
"Jesus," Butter swore.
"I kinda doubt they had anything to do with that one."
"No, no, I meant --"
"I know what you meant. t was a joke, Butters. — Jim Butcher

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue. — Norma McCorvey

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew. — Alan Zweibel

Try to say that: "I don't know anything". We used to call it "tabula rasa" in Latin. Maybe you could think of yourself as an erased blackboard, ready to be written on. For by and large, what blocks spiritual teaching is the assumption that we already know, or that we don't need to know. We have to pray for the grace of beginner's mind. We need to say with the blind man, "I want to see". — Richard Rohr

He didn't dislike New York with the simple diffidence of a small-town kid or the tragic ignorance of a yokel
he hated it with what he hoped was his soul. — Barry Lyga

All tastes are expressions of belief. — Zadie Smith

I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes. — Behdad Sami

I wanted to write a short letter but I only had time to write a long one....

This is not my quote but I can't remember who said it...anyone know? — Kaye Linden

The character of Aristophanes suggested that humans once had three sexes: man, woman, and man-woman. I think the last group must have been like chosens. They were extremely powerful together, so Zeus split them in half. . . .Right down the middle, from head to feet. Those halves wandered around seeking the other half, the one who would make them whole and empower them again. They didn't know why, only that they weren't complete unless they were with their other half. — Coty Justus

Sharks are declining globally ... — Barbara Block