Never make fun of someone is they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive.
The perfume of incense reminds us of the pervading influence of virtue, the lamp reminds us of light of knowledge and the flowers which soon fade and die, reminds us of impermanence. When we bow, we express our gratitude to the Buddha for what his teachings have given us. This is the nature of Buddhist worship.
Don’t cross the boundaries.
I’d meet the women the first night and get the obligatory phone number and then after another couple of days, making them sweat a little, I’d call and be all nervous. They loved that. I’d ask them out and pretend I hardly ever did “this kind of thing’, I hadn’t been out a lot in London because I didn’t really know the scene.
This, it seems to me, is the most devastating weapon of all in a woman’s arsenal. If you can encourage the man to be himself, to give you his character, his ways, then you know how to navigate him, and therefore, he will never be able to hide from you.
Maybe a relationship is just two idiots who don’t know a damn thing except the fact that they’re willing to figure it out together.
Monks, there are two kinds of immature people: those who do not see their own mistakes as mistakes, and those who do not forgive mistakes committed by someone else. The.
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, criticize.
His love roared louder than her demons.
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams.
Aging is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
As a caterpillar, having come to the end of one blade of grass, draws itself together and reaches out for the next, so the Self, having come to the end of one life and dispelled all ignorance, gathers in his faculties and reaches out from the old body to a new.
No doctor knows everything. There’s a reason why it’s called “practising” medicine.
And then John Ambrose McClaren says one last thing, a thing that makes my heart swell. “I don’t think it was our time then. I guess it isn’t now, either.” John looks over at me, his gaze steady. “But one day maybe it will be.
Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance should be slashed by the weapon of knowledge.
I want to be like a Supernova; burn bright and die young.
He has a superb groin. A silky pouch. A secret garden. The groin of a sire. I once saw just such a creamy, velvet groin on a male antelope.
I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.
You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.