Vraie Nature Quotes & Sayings

Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell. — John Neff

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. — Francis Ford Coppola

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. — Abraham Lincoln

It's time you realized that uncertainty is the perpetual lot of mortal creatures, and resigned yourself to being no better than the rest of us. We've no choice but to trust what we don't understand, accept what we can't believe and walk where there's no path we can see. — Ann Lawrence

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to ... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public. — Irwin Rose

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you right now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. — Tony Robbins

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great. — Bill Walton

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. — John Dewey

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life. — Edith Schaeffer

God is real. God is here now. God is this moment revealed. For the most part, we are lost in the past and future world of the mind. To experience the living Presence of God in all things present, we will have come to where God is. We will have to become fully present. Otherwise we have no choice but to believe in God or disbelieve in God and neither is true, for the truth is beyond belief! — Leonard Jacobson

The standard modern measurement for inebriation is the Ose system. This has been considerably developed over the years, but the common medical consensus currently has jocose, verbose, morose, bellicose, lachrymose, comatose, adios.
This is a workable but incomplete system, as it fails to take in otiose (meaning impractical) which comes just after jocose. Nor does it have grandiose preceding bellicose. And how they managed to miss out globose (amorphous or formless) before comatose is beyond me. — Mark Forsyth

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — Epictetus

When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive. — Maia Szalavitz

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself. — Thomas Jefferson