2098 Quotations Found

The daylight is for the brain and the senses, the darkness is for the heart and the wits.

Author: Fynn | Subject: Perception | Observation

Don’t aim for success if you want it. Just do what you love and it will come naturally.

Author: David Frost | Subject: Success / Failure

Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate, there we enter the realm of art and of science. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelationships are not … [ Read more ]

Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Art, Math & Science

What’s life without a past to connect it to?

Author: Brent Wade | Subjects: History, Life & Society

I esteem myself a good, persistent hater of injustice and oppression, but my resentment ceases when they cease, and I have no heart to visit upon children the sins of their fathers.

Author: Frederick Douglass | Subjects: Tolerance, Wisdom

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Author: Martha Washington | Subjects: Attitude, Happiness, Psychology | Behavior

If the monks were right and nothing happens without cause, then the gift of suffering is to bring us closer to God, to teach us to be strong when we are weak, to be brave when we are afraid, to be wise in the midst of confusion, and to let go of that which we can no longer hold. Lasting victories are won in the … [ Read more ]

Authors: James Hayslip, Le Ly Hayslip, Oliver Stone | Source: The movie Heaven & Earth (1993) | Subjects: Pain & Suffering, Wisdom

There are only four questions that need to be answered:

1. What is the meaning of life?
2. Of what is the Spirit made?
3. What in life is worth dying for?
4. And What in life is worth living for?

The answer to all four is LOVE.

Author: Lord Byron | Subjects: Love, Meaning

Passion is destructive, demanding, jealous. Passion goes up and down. Love is constant.

Author: Jean Mareau | Subjects: Desires, Love

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones. Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don’t give way to the seven, you’re patient. Then you’ll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

Author: James Clavell | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Philosophy, Wisdom

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

Author: John Galsworthy | Subjects: Attitude, Insight

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

To have integrity is to bring deep meaning to bear in all aspects of one’s life.

Author: Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy | Subject: Ethics | Integrity | Morality

In any time of well-being, most people, or a very large proportion of the population and the influential population, attributes the favourable situation to their own excellence and intelligence, and therefore takes leave of the problems of those who are left behind. And one can regret that human beings can be so indifferent as to the suffering, the hunger, medical disasters, living disasters of other … [ Read more ]

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Subjects: Culture, Psychology | Behavior

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Be happy now, without reason—or you will never be at all.

Author: Dan Millman | Subject: Happiness

Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life’s challenges.

Author: Michael Josephson | Subject: Character

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

Author: E.E. Cummings | Subjects: Individuality, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Government, although representing the will of the people in a mechanical sense, can not possibly give expression to a nation’s soul. Only the voluntary, spontaneous activity of the people themselves — as expressed in their art, literature, science, education, and religion — can adequately provide a complete cultural portrait.

Author: Frank Ninkovich | Subjects: Culture, International, Politics & Public Policy

You cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among
religious believers.

Author: John Adams | Subjects: Politics & Public Policy, Religion