"Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts."

-- Nichiren

#Distance Quotes #Heart Quotes #Eyelashes Quotes

“Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.”
“I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly”
“Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.”
“On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.”
“Itâ€™s only human to have low moments in life because if you donâ€™t, then you wonâ€™t feel the high, exciting times.”
“Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.”
“On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate,”
“I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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