Ma Long Quotes

Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as 'all accidents are preventable'.

So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.

I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career Id like to emulate.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

I'm kind of pinching myself in the morning. Like, wait, you really did pray to have a body of work that stays diversified and interesting. And I have it!

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process.

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

I wonder why he shot me.

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.