Tokinada Quotes & Sayings

Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivation for eating as well as for other actions. Why do I eat? Am I tired, am I bored, am I stressed and tired? A good practice is to live in the present moment, aware of the reality in which I am immersed. — Mary DeTurris Poust

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else. — Samual Rogers

You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego. — Rajneesh

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves. — Arthur Symons

It's a little bit like what Akari said to his grandmother in Shikoku, during her final illness: 'Please cheer up and die! — Kenzaburo Oe

If you and I spend our seasons together we would find that our dreams and fantasies of happily-ever-after-love have holes in them through which the wind of karma blows: our yellow flag shakes. And I would like you to look ahead and see what I know: the wind will replace our pretty ideas with something brighter: life. — Waylon H. Lewis

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else. — Allison Brennan

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. — Linus Torvalds

The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear. — Margaret Thatcher

Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start. — Napoleon Hill

They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants' rooms because they didn't believe in laundry maids or cooks.
Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV. — Sam Waterston