Stable Quotes - Page 16

• As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Friends, Karma, Pride

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• Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Climate, World

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

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• the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

  Margaret Halsey

  Jobs, Creative, Ruins

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

  Bodhidharma

  Wall, Self, Leaving

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• The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

  Juan Enriquez

  Borders, Lasts, Panama

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Zero, Growth, Progress

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• When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.

  William Ross Ashby

  Numbers, Whole

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• Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Home, Commitment, Space

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• How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

  Arthur Phillips

  Resolve, Conditions

  Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

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• The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

  Mitch Albom

  Pride, Sound, Stones

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• [I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Childhood, Parent, Kind

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the frustration involved in accepting this, and insist on finding some more stable position which affords you peace of mind and intellectual self-complacency, then you will find Kant's position "problematic" in the sense that you can't bring yourself to accept it. You may try to kid yourself into accepting either some naturalistic deflationary answer to the problem or some dishonest supernaturalist answer.

  Allen W. Wood

  Religious, Lying, Kids

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.

  Amy Hill

  Kids, Realizing, Environment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We always use resin instead of polyurethane, even though it takes more work and is in places where it can't be seen, because resin tends to be more UV stable than urethane.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Use

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Use, Done, Research

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.

  Stephen Fry

  Moon, Air, Wind

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.233, Soho Press

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• Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, My Sisters Keeper, My Sister's Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Order, Needs

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• Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?

  Umberto Eco

  Couple, Encounters, Damnation

  "Foucault's Pendulum". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Heart, Character

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

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• …I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Thinking, Light

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Blue, Lucky, I've Learned

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• Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our economy, which has already no doubt adapted to the current situation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Giving, Doubt

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

  Donald Trump

  Peaceful, World, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Whole foods like grains and beans release their sugar very, very slowly because of the fiber in them, and they don't give you a sugar rush. They feed your cells as needed, and as a result, you have loads of stable energy that powers you through the day.

  Kathy Freston

  Cells, Giving, Sugar

  "3 Reasons Your Diet Isn’t Working" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2012.

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