Torficma Quotes & Sayings

Living fast where it's all about the money bags? Never front. — Rick Ross

When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything ... if you are not bothered by the waves, gradually they will become calmer and calmer. — Shunryu Suzuki

In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods
the long-distance phone call, the telegram
were marked "For Emergency Use Only." So my parents waved me off into the unknown, and their news bulletins about me would have been restricted to "Yes, he's arrived safely,"and "Last time we heard he was in Oregon," and "We expect him back in a few weeks." I'm not saying this was necessarily better, let alone more character-forming; just that in my case it probably helped not to have my parents a button's touch away, spilling out anxieties and long-range weather forecasts, warning me against floods, epidemics and psychos who preyed on backpackers. — Julian Barnes

You can't motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated. — Brad Feld

End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for a home. — J.R. Ward

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside. — Marshall McLuhan

[T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it. — Malcolm Muggeridge

All I want is to be left alone. That's why I have that fence. It's not only to keep the critters in. It's to keep people out. — John Saul

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem. — Edward Norton