Quotes
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- Blake, William.
- Bohr, Niels.
- Bonaparte, Napoleon.
- Butler, Samuel.
- Campbell, Joseph.
- Camus, Albert.
- Churchill, Winston.
- Clinton, Bill.
- Coleridge, Samel
Taylor.
- de Chardin,
Teilhard.
- DuBois, W.E.B.
- Einstein, Albert.
- Emerson, Ralph
Waldo.
- Ertz, Susan.
- Ford, Henry.
- Freud, Sigmund.
- Gauguin, Paul.
- Gawain, Shakti.
- Gibran, Kahlil.
- Hazlitt, William.
- Heraclitus.
- Irving, Washington.
- James, William.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Jung, Carl.
- Keller, Helen.
- Keyes, Ken, Jr.
- Kierkegaard, Soren.
- King, Martin Luther,
Jr.
- Longfellow, Henry
Wadsworth.
- MacArthur, Douglas.
- Maslow, Abraham.
- Merton, Thomas.
- Miller, Henry.
- Mozart, Wolfgang.
- Newton, Isaac.
- Niebuhr,
Reinhold.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich.
- Ojibway Tribe.
- Oliver, Mary.
- Orwell, George.
- Pascal, Blaise.
- Picasso, Pablo.
- Pick, Maritza.
- Plato.
- Poole, Mary.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria.
- Roosevelt, Eleanor.
- Rumi, Jalal al-Din.
- Russell, Bertrand.
- Schumacher, E.F.
- Shaw, George Bernard.
- Stevens, John.
- Tchaikovsky, Peter.
- Thoreau, Henry
David.
- Twain, Mark.
- Van Gogh, Vincent.
- Voltaire, Francois.
- Wells, H.G.
- Whitehead, Alfred
North.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Wilde, Oscar.
- Yates, Douglas.
Blake, William
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would
appear to man as it is, infinite."
"Man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a
portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of
soul in this age."
"Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no
passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have
cultivated an understanding of them."
Bohr, Niels
"The opposite of a profound truth is also profound."
Bonaparte, Napoleon
"Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit." (This statement was made near the end of his life.)
Butler, Samuel
"Money is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done
for mankind that which mankind wanted."
Campbell, Joseph
"Life lives by eating itself, casting off death, and being
reborn."
Camus, Albert
"As long as the mind keeps silent in the motionless world of its
hopes, everything is reflected and arranged in the unity of its
nostalgia. But with its first move, the world cracks and tumbles: an
infinite number of shimmering fragments is offered to its
understanding." (The Myth of Sisyphus.)
Churchill, Winston
"Success is going from one failure to the next without a loss of
enthusiasm."
Clinton, Bill
"I strongly believe in the validity of intuition as a guide to
action, especially in imponderable, difficult situations. Many times
I have made a decision I just 'had a feeling' about. Usually these
decisions turned out all right."
Coleridge, Samel
Taylor
"The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a
kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment."
de Chardin, Teilhard
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are
spiritual beings having a human experience."
"Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much
to do conspicuous things ... as to do ordinary things with the
perception of their enormous value."
DuBois, W.E.B.
"I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter; it has made
the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong."
Einstein, Albert
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is
limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating
progress, giving birth to evolution."
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is
a miracle. The other is as if everything is."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It
is the source of all true art and science."
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe' --
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind
of optical delusion of consciousness."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it."
Ertz, Susan
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with
themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
Ford, Henry
"Whether you think you can, and think you can't -- you're right."
Freud, Sigmund
"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me."
Gauguin, Paul
"I close my eyes in order to see."
Gawain, Shakti
"We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there
will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire
consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to
learn about or discover." The Path of Transformation.
Gibran, Kahlil
"Once upon a crossroad, a poor Poet met a rich Stupid, and they
conversed. And all that they said revealed their discontent. Then the
Angel of the Road passed by, and he laid his hand upon the shoulders
of the two men. And behold, a miracle: the two men had now exchanged
their possessions. And they parted. But strange to relate, the Poet
looked and found naught in his hand but dry moving sand; and the
Stupid closed his eyes and felt naught but a cloud moving in his
heart."
Hazlitt, William
"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or
difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."
Heraclitus
"There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of
the bow and lyre." (Heraclitus was a philosopher in Greece around 500
B.C.)
Irving, Washington
"How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure
around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness,
making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles."
James, William
"The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for
appreciation."
Jefferson, Thomas
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against
every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Johnson, Samuel
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it
concentrates his mind wonderfully."
Jung, Carl
"I would rather be whole than good."
"The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole
being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no
substitutes, no compromises."
"Intuition is not contrary to reason, but outside the province of
reason."
Keller, Helen
"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."
Keyes, Ken, Jr.
"Problems are a gift your life offers you to help you grow."
(The Power of Unconditional Love.)
Kierkegaard, Soren
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
King, Martin
Luther, Jr.
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all
the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great
streetsweeper who did his job well."
"And let us remember that, more often than not, fear involves the
misuse of the imagination. When we get our fears into the open, we
may laugh at some of them, and this is good." The Strength to
Love.
"I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving
purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic
companionship. Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a
benign power."
Longfellow,
Henry Wadsworth
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find
in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all
hostility."
MacArthur, Douglas
"There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity."
Maslow, Abraham
"If your only tool is a hammer, you begin to see everything in
terms of nails."
Merton, Thomas
"If you have love, you will do all things well."
Miller, Henry
"The world is not to be put in order. It is for us to put
ourselves in unison with this order."
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of
grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent
world in itself."
Mozart, Wolfgang
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both
together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the
soul of genius."
Newton, Isaac
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on
the shoulders of giants."
Niebuhr, Reinhold
The "serenity prayer": God, grant me serenity to accept the things
I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to
know the difference."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
"If a trees grows up to heaven, its roots reach down to hell."
Ojibway Tribe
"Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being
carried on great winds across the sky."
Oliver, Mary
"You do not have to be good./ You do not have to walk on your
knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting./ You only
have to let the soft animal of your body/ love what it
loves ..."
Orwell, George
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of
life is happiness."
Pascal, Blaise
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
"Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that
he who would act the angel acts the brute."
Picasso, Pablo
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to
paint like a child."
Pick, Maritza
"Privacy is the freedom to be ourselves."
Plato
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy is when men are afraid of the light."
Poole, Mary
"He who laughs, lasts."
Rilke, Rainer Maria
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and
greet one another."
"But once the realization is accepted that even between the
closest human beings infinite distance continues to exist, a
wonderful living side-by-side can grow up, if they succeed in loving
the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the
other whole and against a wide sky."
Roosevelt, Eleanor
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Rumi, Jalal al-Din
"Do not believe in absurdity, no matter who said it."
"The real guru is one who has killed the idol that you have made
of him."
"The heart must be broken many times to be open to receive the
love of God."
Russell, Bertrand
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that
it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the
majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be
foolish than sensible..."
Schumacher, E.F.
"The whole crux of life ... is that it constantly requires the
living reconciliation of opposites which in strict logic are
irreconcilable."
Shaw, George Bernard
"Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. They
may have different tastes."
Stevens, John
"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority... It thus
exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First
Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from
retaliation - and their ideas from suppression - at the hand of an
intolerant society." (John Stevens has been a U.S. Supreme Court
Justice.)
Tchaikovsky, Peter
"Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people."
Thoreau, Henry David
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."
"These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or
to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God
today."
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life."
Twain, Mark
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try and cheer somebody
else up."
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and
loyal and enduring a nature that it will last throughout a whole
lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
Van Gogh, Vincent
"The best way to know God is to love many things."
Voltaire, Francois
"All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution
of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the
activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and
perpetual miracles."
"A witty saying proves nothing."
Wells, H.G.
"New and stirring ideas are belittled because if they are not
belittled the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not
taking part in them?'"
Whitehead, Alfred
North
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the
obvious."
Whitman, Walt
"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic
inch of space is a miracle."
Wilde, Oscar
"But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I
see that there is something wrong in what one becomes."
"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex."
Yates, Douglas
"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it."
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