Quotes of: Stevens Keyword

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

Live Alone and Like It

The world is indeed a better place when there is love, friendship, acceptance and hope. Powered by these you can indeed overcome anything including destiny.

Life is What You Make It

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Life Is Worth Living

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Life Is Worth Living

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Life Is Worth Living

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

The Library at Night

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

The Library at Night

Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

The Library at Night

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

The Library at Night

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

Let the Right One In