"We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake"

-- Pema Chodron

#Eye Quotes #Blink Quotes #Awake Quotes

“Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.”
“I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.”

Source : "Martin Lawrence: He's Got Jokes". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
“Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams”
“Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is me, take it or leave it. And, invariably, they take it. Or at least try to. They love the fact that she doesnâ€™t wear makeup. That her clothes, on her tiny, petite frame, are a mishmash of whatever she happens to pull out of the wardrobe that morning. That her laugh is huge and infectious, and, most of all, that she listens. She loves life, and people, and makes time for them, and even before Jamie came along men were forever falling in love with her.”

Source : Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.69, Broadway Books
“People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. Itâ€™s not just me. Look around.”
“You canâ€™t think yourself out of a box thatâ€™s made of your thoughts.”
“A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.”
“Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes someone mad, thereâ€™s little you can do about it. Jesusâ€™ teaching made some people furious. Just make sure itâ€™s your ideas that offend and not you, that your beliefs cause the dispute and not your behavior.”

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