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Quotes to Live By
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"In love, all life is given; in love, all things move." -Edgar Cayce Reading, 345-1
This page is evolving list of quotes from the surviving writings of philosophers, sages, authors, mystics, and seekers. Some quotes make you smile, some shirk - but when true, they resonate in the human heart and stick with us. They help us to expand our consciousness of the human heart, experience, and the world.
I have found that during moments of life, words of wisdom have found their way to me as if by some magical path and have helped to guide me. Whatever their source, observations of things, when true, make us smile, stop and reflect, and perhaps even walk a straighter path in life and help us...oftentimes just when we need it.
*The following list is not structured in any order of perceived significance based on bias or experience.
Johann Wolfram Von Goethe (1749-1832)
From Wikipedia: German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic; his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. Dr. Rudolf Steiner quoted Goethe often as a genuine seer, initiate, and visionary. Steiner edited his works at the Goethe-Schiller Archives and later named the headquarters for the Anthroposophical Society in Dornach "The Goetheanum".
Goethe wrote thousands of letters and I believe many of the following quotes come from those correspondences. However, he also wrote plays, books, and articles. Being a student of humanity and the world, Goethe traveled widely and gave lectures throughout Europe.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/285217.Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe?page=1
Selected Quotes:
(1) Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
(2) A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
(3) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
(4) As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
(5) We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
(6) If I love you, what business is it of yours?
(7) A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
(8) You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
(9) There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
(10) To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
(11) Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
(12) None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
(13) A person hears only what they understand.
(14) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
(15) By seeking and blundering we learn.
(16) Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
(17) Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
(18) There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
(19) Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
(20) Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
(21) All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
(22) Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
(23) Everything is hard before it is easy.
(24) Nothing is worth more than this day.
(25) The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
(26) Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
(27) The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
(28) We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
(29) No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
(30) At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
(31) If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
(32) All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
(33) People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
(34) Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.
(35) If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.
(36) It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
(37) Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
(38) Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
(39) We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
(40) We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
(41) Doubt can only be removed by action.
(42) Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
(43) One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
(44) There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
(45) What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
(46) Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow...
(47) Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
(48) What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
(49) He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
(50) One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
(51) The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
(52) Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Edgar Cayce (1877-1945)
Association for Research and Enlightenment Homepage (Virginia Beach, Va.): www.edgarcayce.org
The following selected quotes are from "readings" given to individuals by Edgar Cayce during the course of his life. They were not complied during his life as a list of mantras or affirmations, although they can be referred to that way. "The Sleeping Prophet's" readings were conducted by a mediator in a question and answer format while Cayce placed himself into a state of self-hypnosis.
The readings were delivered in response to letters and inquiries from the general public on relationships, health, the past, the future, karma, as well as health and personal issues. He as mentioned in newspapers throughout the country during his life. Cayce's readings evolved to include universal truths, facts, and details about humanity, the world, and the universe. Cayce was tested, and proved, his clairvoyant ability repeatedly and did so on several occasions in a public venue. Refer to the ARE website above for more information.
"ECRL" means "Edgar Cayce Reading Line" and "CCL" means "Contemporary Cayce Language". CCL is a recent attempt by the ARE to clarify Edgar Cayce's readings in cases where he used vernacular that was influenced by old English as was used in the King James Bible, which he read from cover to cover once per year.
"Let that love, that beauty as was the message to the shepherds, be yours today: 'Unto you is born,' yes unto you - each one here - is given a knowledge, an understanding of the life of the Christ that will renew your life, your purposes - if you will but sing that new song, 'Love one another.'" -ECRL 262-116
"May the Peace, the Joy of Christ Consciousness, Christ Presence, Christ Joy be yours this day. Yes, and all your days in the earth! Christ is near to you. Christ is in your midst!" -ECRL 262-103
(1) "The influence or force that motivates the life of each soul is love!" -Edgar Cayce reading 1579-1
(2) "Life is lived within self. You live it; you don't profess it - you live it. Know in whom you believe and why and then apply it in your relationship to those with whom you are in contact daily." - ECRL 5392-1
(3) "Keep the heart singing! Keep the mind clear! Keep the face toward the light! The shadows then are behind!" -ECRL 39-4
(4) "Be patient, be kind. Speak not unkindly of anyone. Let not gossip nor unkind things, either in thought or deed, be in your experience." - ECRL 262-98
(5) "Each individual must stand upon their own inner developments to bring peace or harmony. So long as any is leaning upon another, or so long as they are leaning upon another, there cannot be the full or complete control of self." -ECRL 165-22
(6) "...if the ideal is prompted by Truth...it will bring contentment, peace, harmony and the like." - ECRL 1470-2
(7) "Turn within; see what has prompted you. And there will it be told from within you the steps you should take day by day, step by step." -ECRL 922-1
(8) "If you would have friends, show yourself friendly! If you would have love, show yourself lovely in the little things as well as in the mass or in the larger things. That you give, that you have." -ECRL 1265-1
(9) "For these temporal things must pass away, but that spiritual house, that temple - that cleanliness so akin to godliness - is that which lives on and on." - ECRL 262-109
(10) "All portions of the body come under varied cycles as changes are wrought. For the body fully and completely changes in seven years. Yet this is something continually going on, and various portions change at various reflex periods." -ECRL 3688-1. *Author Note: This corresponds to Dr. Rudolf Steiner's observations that the human being changes in his or her physical and spiritual constitution once every seven years.
(11) "Know that all that materializes must first happen in spirit, and the law of cause and effect ever remains. Hence in spirit it is purpose and ideal." ECRL 3412-2
(12) "And no government, no nation, no state, no city, no family - yes, no individual - is stronger than their weakest habit; the destructive forces that may in any way or manner at any time undermine if they are self-purposing." -ECRL 3976-17
(13) "There first must come peace and harmony within if you would make the experience in the earth of value to you." -ECRL 3409-1
(14) "That individuals may of their own volition choose the exaltation of self, or the aggrandizement of self's own ego, is apparent. This makes for what many have termed and do term their karmic conditions, that may then be seen." -ECRL 262-77
(15) "Keep the heart singing. Keep the face toward the light, keeping self in attune to that Oneness wherein all power, and all force, is at the command of the individual in applying those forces known within self to meet the needs of each and every condition." -ECRL 39-4
(16) "Karma is rather the lack of living to that known to do! As you would be forgiven, so forgive in others. That is the manner to meet karma." -ECRL 2271-1
(17) "The search for God is found in yourself." -ECRL 2282-1
(18) "Thoughts being deeds breed the children of light OR darkness, dependent upon the manner in which the will of an individual, a soul, HOLDS UP."-CCL 288-27
(19) "...don't overdo and do not become a slave to habit." -ECRL 1206-13
(20) "For the love of righteousness, of truth and mercy and judgement and justice, are the weapons with which you may put all things to flight that would make you afraid." -ECRL 1580-1
(21) "It is the spirit, the purpose, the ideal with which you think, you speak, you act, that will determine what the fruit of your life, of your thoughts, will be." -ECRL 3459-1
(22) "Seek; for only the seeker may find." -ECRL 499-2
(23) "...dreams are that of which the subconscious is made, for any conditions ever becoming reality is first dreamed." -ECRL136-7
(24) "Know that all healing forces must be within, not without! The applications from without are to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force. -ECRL 1196-7
(25) "The evasion of a law only puts conditions off, and must eventually be met." -ECRL 3744-2
(26) "Love unbounded is patience. Love manifested is patience. Endurance at times is patience, consistency is always patience." -ECRL 3161-1
(27) "KNOW yourself. Not of earthly, not of material things, but mental and spiritual and WHY!" -ECRL 830-3
(28) "It is best to be patient and quiet than to be sorry." - ECRL 3135-1
(29) "Healing others is healing self." -ECRL 281-18
(30) "Don't look back upon what might have been. Rather, lift up, look up - now - where you are." -CCL 369-16
(31) "Though it may seem or appear little, it is the little word that you may say, it is the little kindness that you may do, that is the greater service you may render in this experience - in bringing to your own self, as well as to others, that of peace and harmony and joy and hope!" -CCL 1632-3
(32) "Each soul, each person, CONSTANTLY meets self. And if each soul would understand, those hardships which are accredited much to others are caused most by self. KNOW that in those you are meeting YOURSELF!" -CCL 845-4
(33) "The purpose of each experience is that the person may magnify and glorify that which is good." -CCL 2599-1
(34) "Know that in whatever state you find yourself, THAT - at the moment is best for you." -CCL 369-16
(35) "Thus as we find in the experiences in the earth, one only meets self. Learn, then, to stand oft aside and watch self pass by - even in those influences that at times are torments to thy mind." -Edgar Cayce reading 3292-1
(36) "Love is the giving out of that within self." -Edgar Cayce reading 262-44
(37) "DO NOT jump to conclusions. Analyze ALL relationships. Hold no grudges, no feelings, because others have not applied or do not apply what you feel to be right, or you feel should be." -CCL 2074-1
(38) "To attain or gain success, to gain freedom, you must manifest same, send out same - but not in a selfish manner; rather in a SELFLESS manner as a service to those who become involved, that the involvement may be as hopeful experiences to ALL concerned." -Edgar Cayce reading 877-19
(39) "(Q) How can I best prepare for old age? (A) By preparing for the present. Let age only ripen thee. For one is ever just as young as the heart and the purpose. Keep sweet. Keep friendly. Keep loving, if ye would keep young." -Edgar Cayce reading 3420-1
(40) "...attunement, atonement and at-onement are ONE...the self-will or personality is ever at war with the infinite within - for the lack of what may be called stamina, faith, patience or what not. Yet each entity, each soul, knows within when it is in an at-onement." Edgar Cayce reading 2174-3
(41) "Think WELL of others, and if ye cannot speak well of them don't speak! but don't think it either!" -Edgar Cayce reading 2936-2
(42) "Best be active and in error than not doing anything at all." -Edgar Cayce reading 262-126
(43) "Learn to live with self and you will learn to live with others." -Edgar Cayce reading 5392-1
(44) "Individuals must first seek that they be of service. Service rarely seeks individuals." -Edgar Cayce reading 254-31
(45) "Make EACH day as SOME activity that has brought joy, happiness, to someone else." -Edgar Cayce reading 808-3
(46) "How forgiving are you? Answer this, and you will know just how you have been forgiven." -CCL 3376-2
(47) "Ye cannot pray ‘Peace - Peace’ when there is no peace in thine own heart and soul!" -Edgar Cayce reading 3976-27
(48) "Make your home, your abode, where an angel would DESIRE to visit, where an angel would seek to be a guest." -CCL 480-20
(49) "Let joy fill your heart, for the day grows in every way before you." -CCL 262-121
(50) "Don't put the material first, for you have to live with yourself a long, long while! Become acquainted with yourself. Know yourself and the relationship to the Creative Forces." -Edgar Cayce reading 3484-1
(51) "...as one gives, so may one have. For the soul only possesses that it has given." -Edgar Cayce reading 341-44
(52) "...refrain from making or drawing comparisons as to others and thus belittling self." -Edgar Cayce reading 1792-2
(53) "For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it." -Edgar Cayce reading 4028-1.
(54) "But keep in a better mental attitude, of not only being good but good FOR something - in counsel, in advice, in association. Speak well of self and better of others." -Edgar Cayce reading 2843-3
(55) "Shadows and doubts and fears will arise in thy experience, but keep before thee the light of all good consciousness..." -Edgar Cayce reading 262-121
(56) "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us." -Edgar Cayce reading 3063-1
(57) "Pray often for those who have passed on. This is part of your consciousness. It is well. For, God is God of the living." -CCL 3954-1
(58) "The greater individual is the one who is the servant to all. And to conquer self is greater than taking many cities." --Edgar Cayce reading 3253-2
(59) "First, find self. Look within. Know thy ideal. Love justice, mercy, peace, and pursue it." -Edgar Cayce reading 2530-1
(60) "Keep the face toward the light...and the shadows fall behind." -Edgar Cayce reading 1188-3
(61)"The purpose for each soul's entrance is to complete a cycle, to get closer to the Infinite, that it may know the purposes with the entity in the earth." -Edgar Cayce reading 3131-1
(62) "Be GLAD you have the opportunity to be alive at this time." -Edgar Cayce reading 2376-3
(63) "All do not think alike. All approach to their own concept." -Edgar Cayce reading 3459-1
(64) "Fear is the greatest destructive force to humanity's intelligence." -CCL 101-1
(65) "It is the MOVEMENT of spirit upon things that do not appear that has brought into being the things that DO appear." -Edgar Cayce reading 1486-1
(66) "Keep yourself unspotted from condemnation of yourself, and these will bring harmony in your experience." -CCL 2583-1
(67) "God is God of all, not just a chosen few." -Edgar Cayce reading 2402-2
(68) "For ye are a part of the whole experience, and ye add to or detract, according to thy own attitude." -Edgar Cayce reading 1467-16
(69)"Make the earth a better place in which to live." -Edgar Cayce reading 4047-2
(70) "As you behold the face of your friend, of your neighbor, of your foe, yes your enemy, you behold the image of your Savior." -CCL 262-103
(71) "The law of cause and effect is as the law of time and space - for cause and effect are one, and each creates its own recompense by the application of same, and in the application of any law (which is love - law being love, LOVE being law) the truth, the effect, the cause is seen." -Edgar Cayce reading 2842-2
(72) "Each soul entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces." -CCL 2632-1
(73)"Thoughts are deeds. Do not be other than optimistic." -Edgar Cayce reading 793-2
(74) "Do not look for success in dollars and cents and not in the spiritual life, for first ADD the spiritual life and TRULY all these things will be added unto you." -Edgar Cayce reading 1982-2
(75) "Worry is harder on the body than the lack of rest." -Edgar Cayce reading 1236-1
(76) "Upon time and space is written the thoughts, the deeds, the activities of a person. The record is God's book of remembrance." -CCL 1650-1
(77) "In Wisdom you will not find fault. In Wisdom you will not condemn any. In Wisdom you will not cherish grudges." -CCL 262-105
(78) "Let your light so shine that others seeing your good work may take hope again." -CCL 254-101
(79) "No circumstance, no happening, no flower, no metal, nothing occurs save by the grace of God." -Edgar Cayce reading 3351-1
(80) "For what one sows that must one reap. This is an unchangeable law. Know that this law may be turned into law of grace and mercy by the individual, through living and acting in their lives in relationships to others." -CCL 5233-1
(81) "What is light? That from which, through which, in which may be found all things, out of which all things come. Thus, the first of everything that may be visible, in earth, in heaven, in space, is of that light - IS that light!" -Edgar Cayce reading 2533-8
(82) "Thought is the builder, but spirit is the motivating force. What spirit do you entertain? If it be of God, it can not fail." -Edgar Cayce reading 3351-1
(83) "Don't look back upon what might have been. Rather, lift up, look up - now - where you are." -CCL 369-16
(84) "All healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body." -Edgar Cayce reading 3384-2
(85) "TRY in your own life, that you do not speak for ONE WHOLE DAY unkindly of any; that you do not say a harsh word to any, about any; and see what a day would bring to you the next lesson, HAPPINESS." -CCL 262-106
(86) "Set your own house in order. Be the channel of blessing to someone each day. And thus, you may come to know a new light that shines out from all light." -CCL 3213-2
(87) "...friendship, as love, as the experience...it is INDEED as the bright and morning star, the lily of the valley, the rose of Sharon; that which brings peace and harmony and JOY in the experience of others!" -CCL 1096-1
(88) "There are immutable laws, and those must be met according to the CHOICE and the DOING! For it is MOVEMENT, ACTIVITY, that brings anything into being." - Edgar Cayce Reading 1580-1
(89) "Don't get mad and don't cuss a body out mentally or in voice. This brings more poisons than may be created by even taking foods that aren't good."
-Edgar Cayce reading 470-37
(90) -"Know that it is not all just to live - not all just to be good, but good FOR something; that you may fulfill that purpose for which you have entered this experience." -ECRL 2030-1
(91) "As has been given from time immemorial, seek to know yourself. Not as an egotist but the ego within oneself, the I AM consciousness." -ECRL 440-20. *Author's note: One of the nuances that Dr. Rudolf Steiner brings to light in his works is the difference between the seeking of "selfhood" and "egotism." One of the tasks of the Christ impulse is freedom and selfhood for each individual which are the highest aspects of the spirit that is a part of the brotherhood of humanity and the universe...but not egotism, which is the gratification of the lower aspects of the soul.
(92) "Be GLAD that you have the opportunity to speak a word to your friend, your neighbor, your brother. You may arouse that hope within as to make this experience in this material world worthwhile." -ECRL 281-56
(93) "You cannot know happiness unless you experience that ye have brought happiness, hope, joy, into the life of another." -ECRL 412-9
(94) "Breathe in, especially through the right nostril, exhaling through the mouth - at least three times. Then three times through the left nostril and exhaling through the mouth. These repeated in the evening would be well." -Edgar Cayce reading 1861-10.
(95) "For thoughts are things, and the Mind is the Builder." -Edgar Cayce reading 281-39
(96) "There are no short cuts in patience. There are no short cuts in time or space, when conceived in the mental and spiritual aspect." -Edgar Cayce reading 2771-1
(97) "Know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. MEET it NOW!" -Edgar Cayce reading 1204-3
(98) One fed upon spiritual things becomes a light that may shine from and in the darkest corner. One fed upon the purely material will become a Frankenstein that is without a concept of any influence other than material or mental. -Edgar Cayce reading 262-20
(99) "Great are your abilities. Great are your hopes. So, too, great are your RESPONSIBILITIES! For of those to whom much is given is much required." -ECRL 262-121
(100) "Know yourself first. Know your own abilities. Don't assert that you know something and don't, but you usually DO! Don't allow others to talk you out of decisions you have reached." -ECRL 3018-1
(101) "Enter into the work with a humble heart, and with the joy of the labor, and the peace and the blessings of many will come to you." -ECRL 900-16
(102) "Though it may seem or appear little, it is the little word that you may say, it is the little kindness that you may do, that is the greater service you may render in this experience." -ECRL 1632-2
(103) "Let your yesses be yes and your no's be no. But do keep your wit, do be able to cry - but be most able to laugh." -ECRL 3374-1
(104) "To 'get even' is a dangerous thing." -Edgar Cayce reading 263-15
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Alfred the Great
"The treatest Englishman was Alfred the Great." -Winston Churchill
"Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men."
"The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows."
"It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die."
"The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
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(1) The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
(2) Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
(3) Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
(4) One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
(5) The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
(6) Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
(7) As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
(8) The knowledge of all things is possible.
(9) There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
(10) I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
(11) The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
(12) Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
(13) Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
(14) Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
(15) All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
(16) Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
(17) Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
(18) Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
(19) Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
(20) Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
From Wikipedia: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Persian: جلالالدین محمّد رومی), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim), and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi Selected
(1) You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
(2) Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
(3) My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
(4) Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
(5) When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
(6) Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
(7) Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
(8) Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
(9) Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
(10) Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
(11) The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
(12) Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
(13) Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
(14) Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
(15) Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
(16) You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
(17) Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
(18) The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
(19) Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
(20) Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
(21) Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside of you.
(22) Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
(23) Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
(24) Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
(25) Love rests on no foundation. It's an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
(26) Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
(27) Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
(28) Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
(29) We are born of love; Love is our mother.
(30) In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
(31) Let your Teacher be Love itself.
(32) We are born of love; Love is our mother.
(33) Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
(34) Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
By Way of the Greeks
(1) The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. -Plato
(2) For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.-Plato
(3) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle
(4) You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -Aristotle
(5) Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. -Aristotle
(6) Character is destiny. -Heraclitus
(7) There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus
(8) One thing i know, that i know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom. -Socrates
(9) Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. -Aristotle
(10) You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. -Epicurus
(11) Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. -Epicurus
(12) It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. - Thucydides
(13) Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time. -Pericles
(14) Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. -Herodotus
(15) Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. -Xenophon
(16) The naïve men are easily fooled. -Bias of Priene
(17) Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness. -Bias of Priene
(18) Do not speak evil of the dead. -Chilon of Sparta
(19) Do not let one’s tongue outrun one’s sense. -Chilon of Sparta
(20) Do not laugh at a person in misfortune. -Chilon of Sparta
(21) Moderation is the best thing. -Cleobulus of Rhodes
(22) Be fond of hearing rather than of talking. -Cleobulus of Rhodes
(23) Forgiveness is better than revenge. -Pittacus of Mytilene
(24) Whatever you do, do it well. -Pittacus of Mytilene
(25) Whatever you agree to do, observe.—Do not divulge secrets. -Periander of Corinth
(26) Pleasures are transitory, but honor is immortal.-Periander of Corinth
(27) Analyze the unknown based on the known. -Solon of Athens
(28) Idleness is the mother of all evils. -Solon of Athens
(29) Speech is the mirror of action. -Solon of Athens
(30) Prudence is different from the other virtues as much as vision is different from the other senses. -Solon of Athens
(31) The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. -Thales of Miletus
(32) Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing. -Thales of Miletus
(33) A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. -Thales of Miletus
(34) Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels. -Cleobulus of Lindos
(35) Seek to please all the citizens, even though your house may be in an ungracious city. -Bias of Priene
(36) Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin. -Thales of Miletus
(37) Know thyself. -Thales of Miletus
(38) No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -Heraclitus (Heraclitus was an initiate in the region of Ephesus, Ionia. This is an allusion to the principle of reincarnation as the soul passes through new and repeated life experiences over time).
(39) I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. -Alexander the Great
(40) I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher (Aristotle) for living well. -Alexander the Great
(41) Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. -Alexander the Great
(42) Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. -Julius Caesar
(43) As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. -Julius Caesar
(44) In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. -Julius Caesar
(45) The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -Marcus Aurelius
(46) It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. -Marcus Aurelius
(47) Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. -Marcus Aurelius
(48) Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. -Marcus Aurelius. *Author's note: The purpose of this quote is an observation of universal truths upon which things transform and change as a principle of life. Let it be a call to action to seize the moment in balance, not to find a path to fatalism.
(49) He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. -Marcus Aurelius.
(50) To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. -Cicero
(51) Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. -Cicero
(52) More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. -Cicero
(53) The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. -Cicero
(54) If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” -Epictetus
(55) “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” -Epictetus
(56) “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ” -Epictetus
(57) “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” -Epictetus
(58) “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” -Epictetus
( 59) “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” -Epictetus
From the East
Confucius
(1) To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
(2) Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
(3) When anger rises, think of the consequences.
(4) Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
(5) Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
(6) Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure.
(7) Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
(8) Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
(9) Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
(10) The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
(11) Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
(12) Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
(13) Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
(14) When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Lao Tzu
(15) The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
(16) Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
(17) A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
(18) There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment.
(19) The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure or peace.
The Buddha
(20) The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live.
(21) What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.
(22) If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.
(23) The root of suffering is attachment.
(24) If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
(25) If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
(26) In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
(27) When you realise how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
(28) "Don't be jealous with anyone. Don't compare with anyone. Just focus on becoming the best version of Yourself."
The Dalia Lama
(29) If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
(30) My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
(31) Love is the absence of judgment.
(32) What surprises me most is “Man”, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the present; The result being he doesn’t live in the present or the future; He lives as if he’s never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.
(33) If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
(34) Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
(35) Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
(36) Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Gandhi
(37) Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
(38) I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
(39) Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
(40) In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
(41) Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Swami Vivekananda
(42) You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
(43) We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
(44) The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
(45) All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
(46) Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
(47)Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe.
(48) Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
(49) Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
(50) If superstition enters, the brain is gone.
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From Wikipedia: Publius Ovidius Naso (Latin: [ˈpuːbliʊs ɔˈwɪdiʊs ˈnaːsoː]; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/ OV-id),[2][3] was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.
(2) Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
(3) Habits change into character.
(4) Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.
(5) Fortune and love favor the brave.
(6) Anyone can be rich in promises.
(7) If you want to be loved, be lovable.
(8) All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
(9) There is a god within us. It is when he stirs us that our bosom warms ; it is his impulse that sows the seeds of inspiration.
(10) Beauty's a frail flower.
(11) Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
(12)
As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new.
What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.” -Metamorphoses
(13) The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
(14) All things change; nothing perishes.
(15) Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Paracelsus
Paracelsus circa 1493 – 24 September 1541) born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance. Paracelsus was
"Paracelsus felt that one must not let thought itself speak; one must presuppose that something is behind the phenomena of nature that will reveal itself if one finds the right relationship to these phenomena. One must be capable of receiving something from nature that one does not create oneself as thought during the act of observation. One must be connected with one's “ego” by means of a factor of reality other than thought. A higher nature behind nature is what Paracelsus is looking for." -Rudolf Steiner, Riddles of Philosophy
Part I, IV. The World Conceptions of the Middle AgesPart I: Chapter IV: The World Conceptions of the Middle Ages - Riddles of Philosophy (1973) - Rudolf Steiner Archive
"Paracelsus places himself before the true essence of man, soul and spirit, embodying himself in the archetypes of nature, in the mineral kingdom, plant kingdom, animal kingdom, where it is expressed in a one-sided way, in order to finally express itself in the most versatile way in man. In the various minerals, plants and animals, letters have been created with which the great All-Spirit has ultimately written the human being. This shows the depth of Paracelsus' insight into the human being." -Rudolf Steiner, Goethe and the PresentGA 68c, XVII. Goethe's Gospel II, XVII. Goethe's Gospel II — GA 68c. Goethe and the Present — Rudolf Steiner Archive
(1) Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
(2) Be not another, if you can be yourself.
(3) Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
(4) Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
(5) He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.
(6) I am different. Let this not upset you.
(7) The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
(8) The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.
(9) Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
(10) Man is ill because he is never still.
(11) The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
(12) The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.
(13) The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
(14) The dose makes the poison...
(15) For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words.
(16) There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.
John Muir. American Druid.
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John Muir, also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. His books, letters and essays describing his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park, and his example has served as an inspiration for the preservation of many other wilderness areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir
-"As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens." -John Muir
(1) It's always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. -John of the Mountains
(2) Both ocean and sky are already about as rosy as possible the one with stars, the other with dulse, and foam, and wild light. - Steep Trails
(3) The sun shines not on us but in us. -John of the Mountains
(4) Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - Our National Parks
(5) The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. -Wilderness World of John Muir
(6) Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
(7) The power of imagination makes us infinite.
(8) Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
(9) I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
(10) Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
(11) Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.
(12) And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
(13) I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
(14) ...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.
(15) We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun, —a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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From Poets to Playwrights
(1) You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. -Oscar Wilde
(2) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -Oscar Wilde
(3) Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde
(4) Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. -Mother Teresa
(5) Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. -William Wordsworth
(6) That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. -William Wordsworth
(7) What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. -William Wordsworth
(8) But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. -William Wordsworth
(9) I am a part of everything that I have read. -Theodore Roosevelt
(10) In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. -Theodore Roosevelt
(11) Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt
(12) The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. -Theodore Roosevelt
(13) Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. -Theodore Roosevelt
(14) Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. -Theodore Roosevelt
(15) The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. -Theodore Roosevelt
(16) The only we have to fear is fear itself. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
(17) Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. -Mother Teresa
(18) I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. -Mother Teresa
(19) We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. -Mother Teresa
(20) Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Teresa
(21) The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. -Mother Teresa
(22) The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Teresa
(23) Intense love does not measure, it just gives. -Mother Teresa
(24) You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. -Abraham Lincoln
(25) No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. -Abraham Lincoln
(26) I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -Abraham Lincoln
(27) Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -Martin Luther King
(28) The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King
(29) We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. -Martin Luther King
(30) Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -Martin Luther King
(31) Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. -Martin Luther King
(32) Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. We cut them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness. - Khalil Gibran
(33) You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. -Khalil Gibran
(34) Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. - Khalil Gibran
(35) If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. - Khalil Gibran
(36) Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. - Khalil Gibran
(37) For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. - Khalil Gibran
(38) Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Khalil Gibran
(39) "I live different lives, but my product and myself, it's the same thing... Anti-fashion fashion, whatever you want to call it, but something that's meant to be timeless. Watch Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief tomorrow, next year, whenever — you would still want to be him at the end of it. And a woman will want to be Grace Kelly. That's timeless." - Ralph Lauren
(40) When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one. -Grace Kelly (Actress)
(41) I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others. -Grace Kelly (Actress)
(42) Getting angry doesn't solve anything. -Grace Kelly (Actress)
(43) Some day, I'm going to get married, and I'll want to tell my children I was in Africa on a safari. -Grace Kelly (Actress)
(44) The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. -Grace Kelly (Actress)
(45) I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. -Grace Kelly (Actress)
(46) I never say 'never,' and I never say 'always.' -Grace Kelly (Actress)
Funny Aside: “Prince Rainier and Grace are coming to lunch today and Rainier is bringing either a tiger or a panther as a present for E,” wrote Richard Burton, two months after the dreaded Princess Margaret run-in. “That’s all I need...I love the Prince and I love his wife and I love Monaco, but if every time we come here we are going to be given a lion I’d rather write bad books at home.” Source: https://gracie-bird.tumblr.com/post/612867010379022336/richard-burton-on-grace-and-rainier-of-monaco
(47) Stand firm as a tower, which never shakes its' top. No matter what winds are blowing. - Dante
(48) Among the attributes of GOD, although they are equal, Mercy shines with even more brilliancy than Justice. - Cervantes
(49) The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. - Montaigne
(50) Win her with gifts, if she respects not words, dumb jewels often in their silent kind more equal than quick words move a woman's mind. - Shakespeare
(51) Right is invincible and truth is immortal.- Victor Hugo
(52) A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. - Victor Hugo
(53) Adversity is the path to truth. - Byron
(54) I die adoring GOD, loving my friends, and not hating my enemies. - Voltaire
(55) If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience, the injustice of our fellows. - Moliere
(56) Faith is the gift of GOD which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture. - Hobbes
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(57) I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of the imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth, whether it existed before or not. - Keats
(58) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
(59) We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
(60) True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love. -Mother Teresa
(61) History is the progress of humanity to consciousness of freedom. -Hegel
(62) The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. -Hegel
(63) If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent van Gogh
(64) Creativity takes courage. – Henri Matisse
(65) Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
(66) It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. Albert Einstein
(67) He who works with his hands is a labourer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. -Saint Francis of Assisi
(68) A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. -Leonardo da Vinci
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author, illustrator, and correspondent, and a complex and controversial character, perhaps best known through his "autobiography" Memories, Dreams, and Reflections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/38285.C_G_Jung?page=1
(1) We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
(2) I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery.
(3) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
(4) Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
(5) I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
(6) You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
(7) Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
(8) The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
(9) People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
(10) There's no coming to consciousness without pain.
(11) Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
(12) Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
(13) We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
(14) Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
(15) Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
(16) Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
(17) What you resist, persists.
(18) The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
(19) Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...
(20) Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
(21) The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.
(22) Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.
(23) Everyone is in love with his own ideas.
(24) To be "normal" is a splendid ideal for the unsuccessful...
(25) Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.
(26) Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol.
(27) My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.
(28) A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
(29) Don’t hold on to someone who’s leaving, otherwise you won’t meet the one who’s coming.
(30) One book opens another.
(31) As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
(32) Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.
(33) Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?
(34) The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.
(35) I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
(36) I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.
(37) How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.
(38) I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.
(39) The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
(40) If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
American entertainer, cowboy, actor, politician, all-around likeable guy...and philosopher.
(1) What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.
(2) Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
(3) Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
(4) There are three kinds of men.The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
(5) Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
(6) The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
(7) All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
(8) A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
(9) You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
(10) When you're through learning, you're through.
(11) People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
(12) You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
(13) Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
(14) Never miss a good chance to shut up.
(15) Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
(16) A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
(17) You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.
(18) When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
(19) If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.
(20) Always drink upstream from the herd.
(21) It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
(22) You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
(23) If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
(24) Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
(25) It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
(26) People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
(27) Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
(28) There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.
(29) I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
(30) If you can't identify it, don't stick it in your mouth.
(31) When God created dogs He just sat back and smiled.
(32) America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
(33) You can be on the right track and still get run over by the 2:40 from Albuquerque.
(34) Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
(35) Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.
(36) If there are no dogs in Heaven, then I want to go where they do.
(37) If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll wait forever.
(38) Nothing makes a man broad minded like adversity.
(39) The more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man’s belief.
(40) If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
(41) You know no nation has a monopoly on good things, each one has something that the others could well afford to adopt.
(42) The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
(43) Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
(44) About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
(45) This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
(46) Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
(47) The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
(48) So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
(49) This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.
(50) You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.