Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Dan Millman

A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

Ram Dass

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

Drew Barrymore

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

David Lynch

Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.

Christopher Paolini

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

Anthony de Mello

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

Anthony de Mello

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Anthony de Mello

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Bert McCracken

It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.

Channing Tatum

I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I do want to direct at some point and start failing really early - start shooting videos and then commercials and then hopefully do some narrative.

Art Buchwald

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

C. S. Lewis

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

Carson Palmer

You can always get better.

Dwight Howard

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

David Karp

Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.

Darren Aronofsky

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

Colin Firth

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.