Alvin O'Konski Quotes

Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

Alvin O'Konski

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• One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Connection

• Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

  

  Lynn Fontanne

• In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Night
  • Prayer
  • Secret

• Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • Drug
  • Order

• The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Keys

• Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

  

  William Penn
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Judgment

• The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Greed
  • Satisfy

• First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don't try and "go cold turkey"; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it.

  

  Gary Player
  • Yourself
  • Diet
  • Vegan

• Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Compulsion
  • Imposition

• Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Important
  • Judging
  • Permit

• Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Fantasy
  • Escape
  • Real Life

• Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Reality
  • Meditation
  • Acknowledging

• Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Reason
  • Christians
  • Destroyed

• Even though we have to cut our budget in oother places, we will spend what it takes to repair the damage, ... Acapulco is not destroyed. It will recover.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Destroyed
  • Damage
  • Budget

• Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

  

  Alvin O'Konski
  • Destroyed
  • Heritage
  • Replaced