Ayya Khema Quotes
The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.
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Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
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The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment.
