Lifetime Quotes - Page 6

• If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.

  Sammy Cahn

  Song, Holiday, Men

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• To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

  Terence McKenna

  Together Again, Cuckoos, Cuckoo Clocks

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• There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Strong, Way

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• Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Essence

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• You only find your Teacher once in many lifetimes. Never be afraid to see them and meditate with them. Your Teacher always understands and always forgives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Forgiving

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• As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am able to use the kundalini energy to alter other people's awareness and aid them in their search for light and certainty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Years

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• If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Practice, Meditation

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• That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Acceptance, Realization, Samadhi

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• We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Independent, Night, Impact

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• Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wisdom, Ideas, Politics

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• In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Mean, Enlightenment

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• You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los Angeles move in and out of houses, every other week, every other lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, People

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• We have the most liberal, the most leftist candidate who has ever run for president in my lifetime; he's a sitting duck. This guy's policies are aimed at destroying the age of American greatness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Greatness, Ducks

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• We want stuff done right. As long as it's my team, I'll voice my opinion. Yep, it's my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. And if we're not right, I'm going to go out there and try to get it right... Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Media

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• I'm obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you've done everything that you could do to accomplish your work.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Home, Night, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything... We've got to nominate a leader if we're going to replace someone who is not a leader.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Leader, Want

  Mitt Romney at GOP primary debate at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2012.

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• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Thinking, Promise

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• A stylish throw. A good quality throw can last a lifetime and adds a dash of color and pattern as well as comfort and a homey quality.

  Nina Campbell

  Color, Quality, Comfort

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• Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Character, Judging

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• Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Past, Soul, Done

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.3, 1909.

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• In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  One Day, Glory, Produce

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• It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

  Saint Augustine

  Son, Riches, Lost

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.231, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Loses

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• We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Eternity, Reincarnation

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