Being straightforward doesn't mean you have to be rude or harsh. There's always a way to be open and honest while also being respectful. Anyone who behaves otherwise is just being lazy. —Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse More about this quote Tags: honesty respect laziness rude Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. —Cullen Hightower More about this quote Tags: payment taxes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them. —Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give More about this quote Tags: love acceptance mistakes people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning. —Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven More about this quote Tags: death earth heaven afterlife Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
. . . because beyond it lies the real treasure. —Santayana More about this quote Tags: future treasure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible conclusions. —Chögyam Trungpa in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism More about this quote Tags: life living assumptions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In constantly seeking to actualize your ideal, you will have no time for composure. But if you are always prepared for accepting everything we see as something appearing from nothing . . . then at that moment you will have perfect composure. —Edward Weston More about this quote Tags: acceptance seeking ideal composure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed . . . Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself. —Carlos Castaneda in The Teachings of Don Juan More about this quote Tags: love relaxation speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The flame started first by amazement over subject matter, that flame which only a great artist can have — not the emotional pleasure of the layman — but the intuitive understanding and recognition relating obvious reality to the esoteric, must then be confined to a form within which it can burn with a focused intensity: otherwise it flares, smokes and is lost like in an open bonfire. —e. e. cummings More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All paths are the same: they lead nowhere . . . They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
. . . gateway of being, let me awaken, dawning,/ let me see the countenance of this day,/ let me see the countenance of this night,/ all things communicate and are transfigured,/ arch of blood, gateway of hearts beating,/ take me to the far side of this night,/ where I am you are us, take me to/ the homeland of the interwoven pronouns. —Octavio Paz in Sunstone More about this quote Tags: time homeland tranformation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Silence makes me nervous cause he doesn't come or go. He just hangs around with his hands in his pockets. —J.R. Slaughter More about this quote Tags: silence speech nervousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Over and above any spring we may know, outside our windows or in our hearts, there is the illimitable sweep of God's concern for his creation and his creatures; comprehending both suffering and beatitude, and transcending both. No one who has been spared — certainly not I — dare say to the afflicted that they are blessed in their affliction, or dare offer comfort in universal terms for particular griefs. Yet one can dimly see and humbly say that suffering is an integral and essential part of our human drama. That it falls upon one and all in differing degrees and belongs to God's purpose for us here on earth, so that in the end, all the experience of living has to teach us is to say: Thy will be done. To say it standing before a cross; itself signifying the suffering of God in the person of a Man, and the redemption of a Man in the person of God. The greatest sorrow and the greatest joy co-existing on Golgotha. —Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God More about this quote Tags: life God man concern grief earth transcendence drama Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Monetary donations to a spiritual cause, contributions of physical labor, involvement with a particular guru, none of these necessarily mean that we have actually committed ourselves to openness. More likely these kinds of commitments are simply ways of proving that we have joined the side of "right. —Chögyam Trungpa More about this quote Tags: spirituality religion right commitment openness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is more beautiful than a road? It is the symbol and the image of an active, varied life. —George Sand More about this quote Tags: travel journey road Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email