Xiang Yun Quotes & Sayings

Against legitimacy is arrayed usurpation; against modest,
single-minded, righteous, and brave resistance to encroachment
is arrayed boastful, double-tongued, selfish, and treacherous
ambition to possess. God defend the right!"
"God often defends the powerful. — Charlotte Bronte

Happiness, Success, Excellence: They are not something you get for knowing the path; they are something you experience by walking it. — Steve Maraboli

The outright propagandist sets up in me such a fury of opposition I am not apt to care much whether he has got his facts straight or not. He is like someone standing on your toes between you and an open window, describing the view to you. All I ask of him to do is to open the window, stand out of the way, and let me look at the view for myself. — Katherine Anne Porter

I feel like the whole world is off balance. Like I'm losing my shit. Like there's this cliff and I don't even realize I'm on the edge. — Megan Miranda

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise? — Margaret Atwood

When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got that voice, and I remember meeting him in the hair and make-up trailer and thinking, 'I'm going to die. He thinks I'm rubbish. Why am I here?' — Kate Winslet

I work either way, you see - assisted or unassisted - because that is what you must do in order to live a fully creative life. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether I am touched by grace or not, I thank creativity for allowing me to engage with it at all. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. — John Lithgow

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead — William Shakespeare

Now if you excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonizing. — J.K. Rowling