Jack Williams famous quotes

I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!
-- Jack Williams

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In so many accidents, you're not quite sure. Lots of times you think that's what happened, but you just don't know.
-- Jack Williams

#Thinking #Happened #Knows

Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.
-- Jack Williams

#Years #America #People

I think there is a richness that we enjoy from the diversity that comes from people coming from around the world. And I'm not opposed or afraid of immigrants. I just would like to see us follow the law. I think that gives everybody a clear roadmap on how we should operate as a civil society.
-- Jack Williams

#Thinking #Law #Giving

In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth ...