Vedana Buddhism Quotes & Sayings

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet. — Niall Ferguson

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. — Thomas Szasz

Love to me, God, this is so difficult ... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.' — Kate Winslet

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice. — Eric Hoffer

Not for the first time, I wondered if my entire family tree was bat-shit crazy. — Pepper Winters

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer. — Eckhart Tolle

I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in regular employment as an actress. — Bronagh Gallagher

Being a kid has always been about being watched. — Lauren McLaughlin

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction. — Tom Brokaw

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. — Angela Carter

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous. — Desmond Tutu

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers! — Jonathan King

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play. — Tim Hudson

As for sanctity - why are the highways and byways of our world littered with unfinished saints; why is it that so few Christians actually radiate Christ; why is it that two thousand years after grace enough has been merited to sanctify ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, so few humans achieve that full human maturity which is called sainthood? There is one very telling answer: we do not take our time! We either live too much in a future which has not yet come - and may not; or dwell in a past which can never return; neglecting all the while "His hour" which is "our time" - the ever present now. — M. Raymond