As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
I never think any place is better than others.
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.
a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.
You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.
Any highway. . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?
Things are gradually falling into place on top of me.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
There is no place love is not.
Bran grabbed my hand,pulled me to a chest, and swung the heavy lid open. A white cloth covered the contents. He jerked it aside. Human heads filled the chest. "Oh God. " He scooped a mummified head from the chest by a scalp lock and thrust it at me. "All of them are mine. " This was officially the weirdest version of "come down to my place and I'll show you some etchings" I've ever been hit with.
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.