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“I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.”

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Robert Orben was an American writer known for his humorous and satirical writing style. Born on March 4, 1927, he was a prolific comedy writer, creating a vast array of works for television, radio, and the stage. more

“Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.”

“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”

Common Poet Baby Mom Fortune Good Fortune Statesmen Toasts Common Ground

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.”

Men Lying Havens Hair Baby Mom Graves Old Man Cradle Haircuts

Book:Complete Poetry

Source: Complete Poetry

“What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.”

Available Buddhist Warrior Gentle Barriers Renounce Renunciation

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

“If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing in something which has no form or no color, which is ready to take form or color. This enlightenment is the immutable truth. It is on this orginal truth that our activity, our thinking, and our practice should be based.”

Ifs Thinking Should Firsts Believe Mean Self Form Practice Color Ready Activity Enlightenment Buddhist Self Centered Believing In Something

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.”

Ifs Want Two Done Shows Sin Teach Virtue Lessons Saint Block Compromise Buddhist Sinner Earnest Mixing Wholeheartedly Earnestness

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.”

Mind Done Hours Horror Mountain Buddhist Uncertainty Again And Again Fear Of Death Unending Fortresses Deathless

Author:Milarepa

“Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.”

Spiritual Practice Path Blood Discipline Commitment Hot Profound Buddhist Fearless Abandon Fierce Joyful Taboo Unreasonable Spiritual Practice Tantra Thunderbolts Foolhardy

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

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