Quotes
Authors
Pema Chodron

"Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is reserved for someone else, and it never occurs to us to feel it for ourselves. My experience is that by practicing without 'shoulds,' we gradually discover our wakefulness and our confidence. Gradually, without any agenda except to be honest and kind, we assume responsibility for being here in this unpredictable world, in this unique moment, in this precious human body."

-- Pema Chodron

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“Bert Blyleven certainly was a starting pitcher that had tremendous success in the big leagues. Jimmy Rice, this guy if you had to face him, I tell you what he'd get your attention cause he was a great... great player. I think those guys deserve some recognition, but it didn't happen for them. For whatever reason, I really can't answer that.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.
“The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.239, John Wiley & Sons
“A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone ...”
“I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.”
“Without TVXQ, I wouldn't be like myself, who I am today”
“You get up about 2-3 oclock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. Thats the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.”
“The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”

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