Things Quotes
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.
The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.
Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.
What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.
Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye
Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.
I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.
All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.
If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.
Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.
You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.
I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
