Dan Harris quote: "Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts and emotions; mindfulness is the space behind the waterfall. Again, elegant theory

Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, pol...
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His dad was a real confidant. He was a real Rock of Gibraltar. I think part of their conversation wa...
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He was great in the leadership field. He understood the game early on. It was so impressive. He was ...
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For individuals who qualify, they can get back $20,000 to $25,000.
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It is likely the force of the blast disabled both cameras. You cannot hear or see anything else on e...
DAN HARRIS

[The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings] really took me under his wing, ... I was able to develop streng...
DAN HARRIS

It's an insult to us that he would be allowed to drive again,
DAN HARRIS

When he gets his muscle back, he will be fine. He is really a great kid. Most people wouldn't do wha...
DAN HARRIS

He wanted to run track last year I think. When he came back to school about six weeks after the acci...
DAN HARRIS

Accountability teaches us lessons, and it protects us. This plea does not hold (Daniel Robbins) acco...
DAN HARRIS

Everyone was talking about 'values voters' and how they asserted themselves, and it seemed like an o...
DAN HARRIS

When ABC called me, I was literally shocked,
DAN HARRIS

[After Dan Harris left his job at WCSH-TV in Portland, Maine, he had some trouble on the job market....
DAN HARRIS

It was the longest, most exquisite high of my life, but the hangover came first.
DAN HARRIS

However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw y...
DAN HARRIS

when you squelch something, you give it power. Ignorance is not bliss.
DAN HARRIS

The fact that you exist is a highly statistically improbable event, and if you are not perpetually s...
DAN HARRIS

I’m thinking: Yes, right—there is a point to sitting around all day with your eyes closed: to ga...
DAN HARRIS

The Buddha captured it well when he said that anger, which can be so seductive at first, has “a ho...
DAN HARRIS

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy abou...
DAN HARRIS

But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my he...
DAN HARRIS

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
DAN HARRIS

The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly ...
DAN HARRIS

What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, “respond...
DAN HARRIS

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
JOANNE HARRIS

The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of sci...
SAM HARRIS

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and...
SAM HARRIS

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and...
SAM HARRIS

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one...
SAM HARRIS

On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely o...
SAM HARRIS

The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential change...
SAM HARRIS

Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teacher...
SAM HARRIS

One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next ...
SAM HARRIS

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiot...
SAM HARRIS

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilit...
SAM HARRIS

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transce...
SAM HARRIS

While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all ...
SAM HARRIS

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's point...
SAM HARRIS

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessari...
SAM HARRIS

The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way i...
SAM HARRIS

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo...
KAMALA HARRIS

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do th...
KAMALA HARRIS

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
KAMALA HARRIS

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know ...
KAMALA HARRIS

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is ea...
KAMALA HARRIS

I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
KAMALA HARRIS

I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisio...
KAMALA HARRIS

So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
KAMALA HARRIS

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
KAMALA HARRIS

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are...
KAMALA HARRIS

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline a...
KAMALA HARRIS

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of...
KAMALA HARRIS

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that pho...
KAMALA HARRIS

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
KAMALA HARRIS

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly de...
KAMALA HARRIS

We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a persona...
KAMALA HARRIS

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstandin...
KAMALA HARRIS

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you'r...
KAMALA HARRIS

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it...
KAMALA HARRIS

The American dream belongs to all of us.
KAMALA HARRIS

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
KAMALA HARRIS

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying s...
MARVIN HARRIS

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London...
CALVIN HARRIS

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
RACHAEL HARRIS

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
RACHAEL HARRIS

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened,...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura L...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this ot...
RACHAEL HARRIS

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to imp...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my ever...
RACHAEL HARRIS

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to b...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
RACHAEL HARRIS

Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in ...
RACHAEL HARRIS

It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy....
RACHAEL HARRIS

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where e...
RACHAEL HARRIS

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good...
RACHAEL HARRIS

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic...
RACHAEL HARRIS

Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. ...
RACHAEL HARRIS

As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my hous...
RACHAEL HARRIS

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized n...
SAM HARRIS

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they w...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
NAOMIE HARRIS

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it wa...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have y...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food d...
NAOMIE HARRIS

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
NAOMIE HARRIS

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. Y...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates w...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
NAOMIE HARRIS

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn u...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're gratef...
NAOMIE HARRIS

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and a...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
NAOMIE HARRIS

I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow...
NAOMIE HARRIS

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for univers...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th...
NAOMIE HARRIS

My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
NAOMIE HARRIS

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
NAOMIE HARRIS

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered ...
SAM HARRIS

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
CHARLAINE HARRIS

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS

Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS

It wasn't him. It was us. We did it. We weren't afraid of Randy. We hurt our damn selves. On that se...
AL HARRIS

I wish him the best of luck. Of course, I want to win the game.
AL HARRIS

I don't think they were attacking me. I think they were going to their guy.
AL HARRIS

They have some serious weapons. We're going to have our hands full on Sunday.
AL HARRIS

He was with Detroit. I'm pretty sure we have some film on him. But it's no secret what they do.
AL HARRIS

You've got to watch yourself.
AL HARRIS

Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.
AL HARRIS

It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a...
AL HARRIS

[In the end, not even the magic of No. 4, combined with the solid play of a young defense that seeme...
AL HARRIS

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrit...
ED HARRIS

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessar...
ED HARRIS

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
ED HARRIS

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time...
ED HARRIS

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an...
ED HARRIS

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
ED HARRIS

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
ED HARRIS

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
ED HARRIS

A lot of films come out before they're finished.
ED HARRIS

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn...
ED HARRIS

I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff d...
ED HARRIS

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fasc...
ED HARRIS

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil...
ED HARRIS

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
ED HARRIS

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
ED HARRIS

I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In ter...
ED HARRIS

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it...
ED HARRIS

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
ED HARRIS

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administratio...
ED HARRIS

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
ED HARRIS

I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
ED HARRIS

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to g...
ED HARRIS

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was alm...
ED HARRIS

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much abou...
ED HARRIS

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
ED HARRIS

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was...
WOOD HARRIS

We really would need a transponder to improve tracking enough to firmly establish that an impact wou...
ALAN HARRIS

That is, we would still not know better than one-chance-in-five whether the impact would really occu...
ALAN HARRIS

Whether you could see it from the center of London is another matter.
ALAN HARRIS

However, to actually know what your seeing, a small telescope would be useful.
ALAN HARRIS

Yesterday, we had a great rain storm for about 15 to 30 minutes, which helped matters a lot. However...
ALAN HARRIS

I think my mom used to wonder, 'What are you saying when you're saying that?'
ALAN HARRIS

create more difficulty than solving the problem.
ALAN HARRIS

In a large telescope the motion would be perceptible against any stars in the field more or less in ...
ALAN HARRIS

Because of the nature of the orbit, we cannot predict thousands of years into the future for this ob...
ALAN HARRIS

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
EMMYLOU HARRIS

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
EMMYLOU HARRIS

From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate ...
CALVIN HARRIS

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England ...
PAUL HARRIS

The real vibe with us, like everybody's saying, is that this is best team that has ever played footb...
AARON HARRIS

We can't play them any time soon anyway. I know we're not playing them next week.
AARON HARRIS

I could care less. Oklahoma wouldn't care.
AARON HARRIS

Our plan was to get him in situations where he's not comfortable. We just wanted to get to him and f...
AARON HARRIS

I signed up for it. It's going to be fun.
AARON HARRIS

I guess we'd feel like Auburn did last year. I guess I'd call them and ask them how they felt.
AARON HARRIS

We definitely see Tech on the same level with Oklahoma and Texas A&M.
AARON HARRIS

I'm tired of having to go home and hear about losing to them. You never want to lose to any team mor...
AARON HARRIS

He's like a disease. He's like an infection. He just spreads.
AARON HARRIS

I hated to see that because it wasn't us beating them. But you really don't want to put too much emp...
AARON HARRIS

The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly ...
ALYSIA HARRIS

A Woman's Question

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolut...
CHARLAINE HARRIS

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
THOMAS HARRIS

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as...
JOSHUA HARRIS

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
CHARLAINE HARRIS

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
CHARLAINE HARRIS

This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to whi...
ROBERT HARRIS

The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
JAMES HARRIS

Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.
MARTYN HARRIS

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
DAVID HARRIS

Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ...
SYDNEY HARRIS

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to th...
JOANNE HARRIS

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstab...
CHARLAINE HARRIS

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or yo...
JEAN HARRIS

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA HARRIS

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rathe...
PAUL HARRIS

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
PAUL HARRIS

I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one...
STEFON HARRIS

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British...
PAUL HARRIS

It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of ...
SAM HARRIS

Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world re...
MARVIN HARRIS

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
KAMALA HARRIS

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can fe...
SAM HARRIS

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with p...
BRIAN HARRIS

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
PAUL HARRIS

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later pro...
KAMALA HARRIS

I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice...
NAOMIE HARRIS

It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and t...
NAOMIE HARRIS

Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts and emotions; mindfulness is the space behind the waterfall. Again, elegant theory – but, easier said than done.

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Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts and emotions; mindfulness is the space behind the waterfall. Again, elegant theory – but, easier said than done.

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