Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.

Sharon Salzberg

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MemoriesGreatYourselfPeopleBlame

In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.

Jim Lovell

MoonBackMeanSixtiesSeventies

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

Jim Lee

WorkArtInfluencePageModernLike

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Joaquin Phoenix

BeautifulWalkYourselfValuePeople

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Joan of Arc

TruthChildrenPeopleSometimesSay

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Jean Rostand

HellParadiseRightShouldUse

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

John T. Chambers

WorldInternetChangedManyWays

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

Steve Waugh

LifeSurviveToughEasyYouHide

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

Simon Schama

FaithPoliticsWarOptimismAmerica

Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

Tracee Ellis Ross

LifePoliticsMeThinkMy LifeMost

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

Tommy Chong

SitUsedWellHePlayedSax

Tarzan is such a great character in that he's very innocent and wide-eyed about the world, yet he's so powerful and capable. It's fun to play those qualities simultaneously in the same person.

Michael T. Weiss

CharacterGreatFunWorldPowerful

If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.

Deeyah Khan

WomenFutureValueKeyProjectCore

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