Quotes About Center

Travis had woken up in the van shouting and everyone on the Screech Owls had laughed and slapped at his shoulders, and the back of his head. He had refused to tell them what had scared him. Let them think whatever they wanted. It was a ridiculous dream anyway. He'd never forget his skates. Besides, he wasn't even a center.

February, month of despair, with a skewered heart in the centre.

Prayer is wanting. Jesus, Jesus he says, but he's not praying to Jesus, he's praying to you, not to your body or your face but to the space you hold at the centre, which is the shape of the universe. Empty.

The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains. Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects.

Temptation comes next. At the Center, temptation was anything much more than eating and sleeping. Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you, Aunt Lydia used to say. Maybe

Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects. And they were right, it is envy. Just holding it is envy. I envy the Commander his pen. It's one more thing I would like to steal. The

Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects.

it was a form of compliment, she felt, since it made her the focus of his attention.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

Once you know where true is, it defines everything else that has to happen.

The relentless pursuit of mass will make you boring, because mass means average, it means the center of the curve, it requires you to offend no one and satisfy everyone.

great Indian teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj once said, "Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows." "I am nothing" does not mean that there is a bleak wasteland within. It does mean that with awareness we open to a clear, unimpeded space, without center or periphery—nothing separate. If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love.

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

huge gemstone at its center flashed in the sunlight and caught everyone's gaze:

Islamic patterns speak of infinity and the omnipresent center.

She opened the tin to show Candace the dark red strands, a fortune in her palm, dearer than this much caviar, this many shaved truffles; it was for spices like this that Columbus had set out in his ship. "Each strand is handpicked from the center of a crocus flower that blooms two weeks of the year.

Her feet were buried in the sand and the champagne had warmed the very center of her. She was conscious of being alive and being present: a clear night, a golden beach, good food