2,090 quotes found
“If you can react the same way to winning and losing that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.”
“You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.”
“Coercive power is the curse of the universe coactive power the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.”
“I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”
“O golden Silence bid our souls be still and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!”
“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
“When you learn not to want things so badly life comes to you.”
“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
“One by one the sands are flowing One by one the moments fall Some are coming some are going Do not strive to grasp them all.”
“Somehow when we no longer feel in control we become available to deeper aliveness.”
“We cannot alter facts but we can alter our ways of looking at them.”
“Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.”
“Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.”
“For peace of mind resign as general manager of the universe.”
“Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it"...”
“So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us.”
“The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.”
“I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
“We are the wire God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.”
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."”
