Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

Sharon Salzberg

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ExperienceEffortConstructionDesire

Our definition of VIP is not as big as in Macau. But for us, they are VIPs even if they don't spend a lot because we are very hospitable here.

Andrew Tan

BigHereUsBecauseEvenVIP

I am growing meaner by the hour.

Jean Stafford

I AmGrowingHourMeanerAm

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Sigmund Freud

ProgressMeNowContentMiddle

If you think about it, for almost any moment, any mood that you might be in, there's probably a Beatles song that will address that mood, that feeling, that set of emotions. I don't know that that can be said about very many groups, if any.

Ron Howard

MomentSongThinkYouEmotionsKnow

Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.

Rumaan Alam

ConfidenceInternetNiceDamnSeems

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

Mary Gauthier

PeopleTraumaThroughBeenWho

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

Michel Houellebecq

LifeMeSocietySomeoneNeverWell

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

Mona Eltahawy

I AmMoralDictatorAmnesiaAmDies

I'm great at dishwashing.

Mirai Nagasu

Great

The Pyrenees are no more.

Louis XIV

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Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

Domhnall Gleeson

JobThinkGoNowWayTalk

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

Douglas Coupland

LoveGodTogetherLove IsGoneUs

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