Quotes
“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe… What we believe determines what we take to be true.”
- David Bohm
"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to perish together as fools."
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- Martin Luther King, Jr
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Our capacity for what psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has termed “fertile solitude” is absolutely essential not only for our creativity but for the basic fabric of our happiness — without time and space unburdened from external input and social strain, we’d be unable to fully inhabit our interior life, which is the raw material of all art. -Maria Popova
“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe… What we believe determines what we take to be true.”
- David Bohm
You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster and so if you practice optimism it may increase your feelings of vulnerability. The trick is to increase your tolerance for vulnerable feelings, rather than avoid them altogether.-Philippa Perry
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
'The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be.
-Neale Donald Walsch
“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“This was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Lost in Time
“Only selfless service can encourage a person to reach the higher state of humanity.”
―Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
― Mahatma Gandhi
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spaces of spheres."
-Pythageras
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius
"Beauty without intelligence is a masterpiece painted on a napkin."
-Anonymous
"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 his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely,but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
-Einstein
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~Abraham Lincoln
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
-Aldous Huxley
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
-Oscar Wilde
“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out,' said the shopkeeper. 'That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
"People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing."
- Dale Carnegie
"It's never too late to become the
person you might have been."
- George Elliot
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
– William James
"Too often we underestimate how quickly our feelings are going to change because we underestimate our ability to change them."
-- David Gilbert
"People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing."
- Dale Carnegie
"It's never too late to become the
person you might have been."
- George Elliot
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
– William James
"Too often we underestimate how quickly our feelings are going to change because we underestimate our ability to change them."
-- David Gilbert
"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?"
- Gabrielle Roth
| However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Buddha |