#ali

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#meditation #serenity #spirituality #beauty

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#become #draw #family #feel #friends

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. ↗

— Cameron Crowe

#age #bangs #being #dave #fallen

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#angeles #attack #australia #bubonic #continent

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#brought #children #curiosity #fighting #girl

Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#death #death tax #doing #economic #economic growth

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#because #blessing #child #easily #enormous

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#better quality #costs #long-term #lower #quality

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#benefits #economic #i #line #out