Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Don't scale your perfection in the middle sometimes your last card decides the winner.
Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm--inner peace in the middle of chaos.
Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.
If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.
Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
I noticed Xander had subtly adjusted his posture. He slouched slightly to the side, let his head hang, and then looked up through his bangs to gaze at something in the middle distance. Uber James Dean. Xander managed to pull it off as if he was looki...
Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits 's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.
A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages has sent poets, popes, kings and fools to the junk hea...
... --an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature.
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry.
Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are.
