David Burtka famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.
-- David Burtka

#Giving Up #Years #Breathing
Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.
-- David Burtka

#Cousin #Funeral #Sometimes
I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.
-- David Burtka

#Nyc #Energy #Different

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.
Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.

David Burtka famous quotes

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