Yamada Roshi Quotes & Sayings

A friend is someone I complain to about my other friends. — Doug Benson

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image. — Loretta Lynch

Check your passions that you may not be punished by them. — Epictetus

Nobody introduces us to inspiration ... it glows in our thoughts, it lives in our heart,
It is all around us in the form of sunshine, in the clouds. It changes our reality - choice lies with us. — Balroop Singh

I have a conscience, but it's a feeble, withered shred of a thing. It couldn't protect you or anyone else from a stiff breeze.' Glokta sighed, long and hard. The room was too hot, too bright, his eyes were sore and twitchy and he rubbed at them slowly as he spoke. 'You could not even guess at the things that I have done. Awful, evil, obscene, the telling of them alone could make you puke.' He shrugged. 'They nag at me from time to time, but I tell myself I had good reasons. The years pass, the unimaginable becomes everyday, the hideous becomes tedious, the unbearable becomes routine. I push it all into the dark corners of my mind, and it's incredible the room back there. Amazing what one can live with. — Joe Abercrombie

We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found. — Sharon Salzberg

I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn't even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience. — Mark Bittman

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. — Roger Ebert

I can be anything you want but definitely not a wannabe. — Pushpa Rana

Picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. — Ambrose Bierce

It's the viewer that makes the work. — Marcel Duchamp

What do you say, Will? Going to give me a whirl?"
"What?"
"Come on. Let's give these fuckers something to talk about. — Jojo Moyes