Vtrend Quotes & Sayings

We choose ignorance because we can. We choose awareness because we can. Samsara and nirvana are simply different points of view based on the choices we make in how to examine and understand our experience. There's nothing magical about nirvana and nothing bad or wrong about samsara. If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so, and that the opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available. — Yongey Mingyur

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive — Petrarch

When you're a star, critics can't make or break you. — Patricia McBride

A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. — Junot Diaz

We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

See? I can feed a lot of you to yourself if you keep wanting to act this way. — Tim Miller

He was like chocolate-covered heroin, and I was an addict through and through. — Darynda Jones

Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically. — Brooke Burke

You're not . . . normal, Clara. You try to pretend you are. But you're not. You talked to a grizzly bear, and it obeyed you. Birds follow you like a Disney cartoon, or haven't you noticed? And for a while after you came back from Idaho Falls, Wendy thought you were on the run from someone or something. You're good at everything you try. You ride a horse like you were born in the saddle, you ski perfect parallel turns your first time on the hill, you apparently speak fluent French and Korean and who knows what else. Yesterday I noticed that your eyebrows kind of glitter in the sun. And there's something about the way you move, something that's beyond graceful, something that's beyond human, even. It's like you're . . . something else. — Cynthia Hand

She hated this place. Nothing made sense. Nothing worked as it was supposed to. She was supposed to be learning things as she went along, gaining strength for her final battle. All she was doing was losing things, one thing at a time. — Anne Ursu

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. — Marcel Proust

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. — John James Ingalls

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. — Frederick Tennyson

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead. — Balroop Singh