“Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."” IfsMenSaidWisdomHappensCoursesAcceptingPiecesHe ManOne DayOffersPaperAbuseRefuseVillageSquaresStay With Me Author:Gautama Buddha
“I just feel like this skin is mine. It's aging every day and the tattoos are aging with me. So, I'm going to be an old piece of paper one day with a lot of work on it.” FeelsPiecesMinesOne DayPaperSkinsAgingTattoo Author:Maria Dahvana Headley
“Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.” ArtDreamCitiesPiecesOne DayWanderSavingBuyingGallerySaving Up Author:Nicola Formichetti
“Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.” YearsSaidGodUseLastsFivePiecesOne DayPaperYears AgoMachinesStupidityCopiesBlankSecretaryTypingCopiers Author:Dave Barry
“When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens to me in Prague I'm not going to use the name Kafka, I'm just not going to do it. I won't do it; it's so easy, everyone else does, I'm not going to. I'll write the first non-Kafka mentioning piece.” WritingFirstsDoeUseHappensNamesEasyPiecesOne DayCommunistRegimes80sWhatever HappensCzechoslovakiaPrague Author:Christopher Hitchens
“She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.” UsedHatePiecesFailingOne DayRevengeEmsWithout HopeCataloguesInsolenceHate Her Author:William Congreve
“I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.” WritingTryingHandsNextNovelPiecesWeekYouthOne DayMemoirEvolveSatNonfiction Author:Tim O'Brien
“We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenHeartHardEnoughRealizingHellPiecesFansMy HeartOne DayThousandMy FriendsIntenseDedicatedDecemberPantera Author:Phil Anselmo
“You see ... a man like me, a cautious man, has his life all figured out according to a pattern, and then the pattern flies apart. You run around for quite a while trying to repair it, until one day you straighten up again with an armful of broken pieces, and you see that the world has gone on without you and you can never catch up with your old life, and you must begin all over again.” MenWorldTryingRunningGonePiecesBrokenOne DayPatternsLike MeWithout YouCautiousOld LifeBroken Pieces Author:Peter Matthiessen
“I invite people to just stop and be still. And in that you discover who you are, because once you discover who you are, you can stop fragmenting into pieces. I know that in any one day there are moments were there is nothing going on, but we link up what is happening from thought to thought without any space. We overlook the spaciousness that it is all happening in.” PeopleKnowsStillsMomentsSpacePiecesOne DayHappeningsWho You AreLinksInvitesSpaciousness Author:Gangaji
“I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'” WritingSaidWarRunningHouseVoiceWhitePiecesWrittenOne DayWhite HouseEditorsCheerVietnamReportersJohnsonCommandersVietnam WarMaxVisitingEditorials Author:Nat Hentoff
“It's so important for jewelry has to be versatile. The statement piece is no longer just that. One day it's a statement and the next it's merely an accent to a great pair of shoes or a stunning handbag. Adaptability is key.” ImportantNextPiecesKeysOne DayShoesStatementsPairsAccentsJewelryAdaptabilityStunningPair Of ShoesVersatileHandbags Author:Ivanka Trump
“You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.” KnowsChildrenLittlesLongEnoughFeelingsLastsGivenPiecesChildhoodMinutesOne DayLong TimeLonelyGoldYour ChildrenOutcomesHopelessFeeling LonelyLast MinuteShavingAmbient Book:The Ten-Year Nap Source: The Ten-Year Nap
“Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.” PeopleLooksSometimesWholeBitsPiecesOne DayAddDancingBusyHolesDelivering Author:Mary E. Pearson
“Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.” PeopleLoveLifeGivingPersonsDifferentAsksPiecesStupidOne DayKissingFalling In LoveSmileWanderVulnerableDumbIt HurtsBeing In LoveOne PieceBeen In LoveWanderersSandmanI Hate LoveYour StupidStupid PersonMy Heart HurtsStupid Life Author:Neil Gaiman
“Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.” IfsWantLittlesPersonsWholeSpeakPiecesOne DayMouthsSilentHotterWhole Person Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches