Use Quotes - Page 250

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.

Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

People talk to you and they try to convince you that they like what they do just because it sucks less than what they used to do... which sucked a lot.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.

Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

I would use going into nature to clear myself - trees and plants including having plants at your house is a wonderfully natural way to continuously clear yourself.

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

Old men need applause too.

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

You and I are infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Some of these choices are made consciously, while others are made unconsciously. But the best way to understand and maximize the use of karmic law is to become consciously aware of the choices we make every moment.

When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.

In order to find peace, we must expose the masks we use to hide behind.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.