"In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life."

-- Sarah Vowell

#People Quotes #Matter Quotes #Saint Quotes

“The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.”
“What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?”

Source : Lisi Harrison (2011). “Where There's A Wolf, There's A Way”, p.99, Hachette UK
“I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.”
“We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.”
“I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.”
“To me, itâ€™s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.”
“I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.”
“From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all There was to it.”

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