"We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness."

-- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#Pride Quotes #Desire Quotes #Mindfulness Quotes

“God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.”
“Sometimes you're blessed with teams that are incredibly talented, but there's chaos. But sometimes you're blessed, as I have been this year, to have kids who think the same way you do.”
“I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.”
“But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.”

Source : Sir Gavin De Beer (1956). “Science and the humanities”
“I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.”
“We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves.”
“Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.”
“There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.”

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