The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction,. . . I've seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon.
The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history.
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
One man by delaying saved the state for us.
I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.
My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.
Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.
Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.
What state do you live in? Denial.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.
In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.
A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.
The Gods have a lesson that tells you to build and destroy and that's the cycle of life. Things have to be destroyed and then it has to be rebuilt. I think rap always go through cycles where it appears that it's destroying itself but it's actually purging itself and after it purges itself it comes into another state of being.
I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.
Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.