Dalai Lama quotes
Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.
Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.
True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.
I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up,' he said. 'And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you,' I said.
Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?
Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.
I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a 'Reserved' sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.
My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.
I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.
I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.
I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. 'Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.
My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.
Zerbrowski said, 'Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.' It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and