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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Great customer service does not come by chance. It is the result of training and ensuring there are enough assistants to serve the customers.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the end result does not match the expectations. '10 Enradhukulla' is still a movie very close to my heart.
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Federalism should be able to maintain unity among all. But this does not mean that we should boycott regional voices and the voices of ethnic groups.
I've dealt with a lot of people with bad intentions. Just because somebody has a following does not mean that they are a good person or a good friend.