The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

Chuck Palahniuk

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Joyce Maynard

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Frank Langella

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

C.S. Lewis

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

Tupac Shakur

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Aristotle

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

Billy Preston

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

Paul Prudhomme

It always seems impossible until it is done.

Nelson Mandela

Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence.

Brian O'Shaugnessy