S. N. Goenka Quotes
One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.S. N. Goenka
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard -
You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
Felix Dennis -
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali -
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas -
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
Larry Ellison -
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
Patricia Richardson -
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers -
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
Ice Cube -
My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
Yoko Ono
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
Salma Hayek -
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman -
Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.
J. B. Pritzker -
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
Daniel Bruhl -
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde -
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.
Mary Baker Eddy
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I see (humor) in the smallest things.
Hal Hartley -
Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
William Lloyd Garrison -
Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.
Elfriede Jelinek -
I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
Coby Bell -
One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
S. N. Goenka