"If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast who treats my upholstery like a shrine."

-- Ursula Vernon

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“By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind.”

Source : Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Openness mind”, Dharma Pub
“I hate that word â€” 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work”
“The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion ...”
“I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very early on. I was interested mainly in the entertainment arts. I wasn't as interested in being a fine artists.”
“I think credibility is one of those things that, if you work hard and you get it by standing in the trenches and traveling the world, people realize you're multi-faceted. Part of me is a serious journalist and I loved all of the stuff I did. And then there's another part of me that likes to let go and I think a lot of women can relate to that.”

Source : "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.
“I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.”
“My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.”
“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.”

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