Zumaline Quotes & Sayings

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there. — Chogyam Trungpa

Keep quiet about a toothpick in today's butter and next thing you know you'll be findin' a doorknob in the cottage cheese. — Alan Bradley

If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan's beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively in the absence of certainty, and show that our fear of error is greater than our love of truth. — Terryl Givens

Man does not live by destruction. — Mahatma Gandhi

F you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen ... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best. — Brian Tracy

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper. — Billy Collins

Mental illness

People assume you aren't sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you're hurting.

My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more like me?
Have you tried shutting up?

Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
and yes, I am still sick.

Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren't ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

Telling me there is no problem
won't solve the problem.

This is not how miracles are born.
This is not how sickness works. — Emm Roy

He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No. — Samuel Johnson

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky. — Krista Allen

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of. — Ken Venturi

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake. — William Blake

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. — Izaak Walton

Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
You Presume you are a small entity,
But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
You are indeed the evident book,
By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
What you seek is within you, if only you reflect. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could — Greg Gutfeld