I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.
Children do better when they feel better.
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?
One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.
When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others
What we do is never as important as how we do it.
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.
My wife said to me 'I hope you win. . . but if you do and you go up and say you love me, don't think it makes up for never saying it when we're alone.
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are. '