Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them. ”

Kindness is a sort of love without being love. ”

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be. ”

When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important. ”

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. ”

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up? ”

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. ”

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me. ”

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much. ”

Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal. ”