"We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life."

-- Dalai Lama

#Death Quotes #Attachment Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.”
“An actor without an audience is rehearsing.”

Source : "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. November 2011.
“As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.”
“The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.”
“Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”
“God does not believe in our God.”

Source : Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.131, Tin House Books
“The truth was much more beautiful.”

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