Umbertosny Quotes & Sayings

What unites us all as human beings is an urge for happiness, which at heart is a yearning for union, for overcoming our feelings of separateness. We want to feel our identity with something larger than our small selves. We long to be one with our own lives and with each other. If we look at the root of even the most terrible addictions, even the most appalling violence in this world, somewhere we will find this urge to unite, to be happy. In some form it is there, even in the most distorted and odious disguises. We can touch that. We can draw near and open up. — Sharon Salzberg

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun. — Amit Ray

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all. — John Ashbery

Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum, — Larry Page

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. — Nick Cave

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff. — Chloe Sevigny

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. — Antonio Porchia

Because insulin's job is to transport nutrients out of the bloodstream and into the muscle, liver, and fat cell storage depots, its excessive presence in the bloodstream inhibits the release of stored body fat for use as energy. — Mark Sisson

You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies — The Doctor

Only half of Roger's success was owing to his mental powers; the other half was owing to his perfect health, which enabled him to work harder and more continuously than most men without suffering. He said that in all his experience he had never known any one with an equal capacity for mental labour; and that he could come again with a fresh appetite to his studies after shorter intervals of rest than most — Elizabeth Gaskell

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private. — Shawn Amos

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking

Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed." (Proverbs 16:3). — Bible

No one has really ever defined what a friend is. — Joseph Epstein