#iona

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things. ↗

— Osho

#inspirational #beauty

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse. ↗

— John Conyers

#attempt #judges #laughing #leaders #makes

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#back #college #could #doing #enthusiasm

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#business #business partners #businesses #could #difference

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#days #i #i think #me #over

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#educational #reading #education

Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first... ↗

— Tanya R. Liverman

#education-system #educational #education

The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#bombers #challenges #children #conventional #faced

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#clean #global #greatest #maintaining #national

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now... ↗

— Evanescence

#life #wisdom #beauty