Angel Kyodo Williams Quotes
You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You don't have to do anything special. Mostly, you have to be open to meeting face to face, and even dancing with, the truth that pertains to your life right now. You have to find a way to collect your fractured pieces, examine them, and the accept them as part of who you are. Spiritual practice is about transformation, but it's also, and more importantly, about working with what is.
Angel Kyodo Williams
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
Natalie Jeremijenko
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel Johnson
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
Larry Wall
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
Kanye West
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
Pankaj Mishra
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Pankaj Mishra
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
V. S. Pritchett
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
Ha-Joon Chang
This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading-the sum total of our experience.
Edward R. Murrow
I die - but first I have possessed,And come what may, I have been blessed.
Lord Byron
Non vi vieto per questo (ch'avrei torto)Che vi lasciate amar; che senza amanteSareste come inculta vite in orto,Che non ha palo ove s'appoggi o piante.
Ludovico Ariosto
Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
Dan Phillips
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
Kofi Annan
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
Jim Parrack
There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.
Laura Lippman
You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You don't have to do anything special. Mostly, you have to be open to meeting face to face, and even dancing with, the truth that pertains to your life right now. You have to find a way to collect your fractured pieces, examine them, and the accept them as part of who you are. Spiritual practice is about transformation, but it's also, and more importantly, about working with what is.
Angel Kyodo Williams
