We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

Bodhidharma

In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will

Sir Winston Churchill

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Meat Loaf

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Martina Navratilova

You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.

Tony Shalhoub

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Paulo Coelho

When art wins, everyone wins.

Jerry Saltz

Every harlot was a virgin once.

William Blake

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Charles Stanley

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...

Bergen Evans

The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually, it does.People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is .There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle .

Terry Pratchett

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Anne Lamott