"We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time."

-- Pema Chodron

#Running Quotes #Lines Quotes #Stories Quotes

“My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.”
“I'm trying to drink more water.”
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.”
“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
“Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.”
“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
“Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but it is different.”
“Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If theyâ€™re not enslaved, then what are they? Free?”

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