Betty Sue Flowers Quotes

When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.

Betty Sue Flowers

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• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• This country is pretty amazing.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Situation
  • Comfortable
  • Room

• Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth
  • Path

• I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Sister
  • Ugly

• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

  Denis Diderot

• To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Art

• I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Mom

• Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Community
  • City
  • Paris

• Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

  

  James Dyson
  • Lazy

• It wasn't the first reality show, but 'Survivor' was the first big network hit, and I'm proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, 'Survivor: Amazon.'

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • History
  • Reality
  • Proud

• I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Action

• If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.

  

  Karl-Henrik Robert
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Pieces

• Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Time

• All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing - that the soul is eternal.

  

  Meher Baba
  • God
  • Important
  • Experience

• No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Moral
  • Grief

• When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Thinking
  • Practice
  • Experiences