Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
Quotes to Explore
-
My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
-
I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
-
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
-
I love working the legislative process.
-
We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
-
I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
-
When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
-
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
-
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
-
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
-
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
-
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
-
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
-
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
-
I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
-
I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
-
I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
-
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
-
You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
-
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
-
The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
-
Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
-
We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
