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• Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meditation Practice, Silence, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise - the traffic in the head. So many thoughts - trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Airplane, Thinking

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• Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Eye, Goal

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Summer Game”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.7, Hayes Barton Press

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• These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational, People, Giving

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• Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

  Clifford Stoll

  Technology, Two, Yellow

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• Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question.

  Sally Ride

  Lying, Heart, Bad Ass

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• You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.

  Dick Cheney

  Jobs, Responsibility, Emotional

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• You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Volunteer, Sitting Down, Footprint

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• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Clouds

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 198

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• I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.

  Brad Pitt

  Marijuana, Dope, Smoking

  "Brad Pitt spent decade smoking marijuana: Which '90s star came out on top?", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Sweet, Marijuana

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• Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.

  Dave Barry

  Dad, Teenager, Taken

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• 'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, "well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.'And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

  Shel Silverstein

  Book, Tired, Boys

  Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”

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• Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm

  Rutger Hauer

  Rain, Storm, Dove

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• It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Vanity, Thrones, World

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• The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Change, Spiritual, Creating

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Practical Spirituality: The Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication”, p.32, PuddleDancer Press

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• What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Basketball, Balls

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• I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Giving, Sitting Down

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• In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Jail, Feelings

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• That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Fun, Crazy

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• Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

  Patty Murray

  Badass, Class, Long

  "Patty Murray Speech Text: Read The DNC Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.

  Justin Bieber

  Girl, Cocky, Knowing

  "Justin Bieber’s Guide To Life" by Lauren Duca, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 07, 2013.

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• she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Tree, Yards

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland Collection”, Lulu.com

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• It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.

  John Flavel

  Wise, Religious, Blessed

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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