310 quotes found
“You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard tru...”
“As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen”
“Don`t let a little fear stop you from getting what you want”
“Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passi...”
“Things are neither good nor bad , all that matters is our thinking....!”
“One's mutual responsibility to any individual determines the role of one person who he is.”
“Prophecy is nothing but only just an estimation based on regularities of the Nature.”
“The elements of life do not segregate themselves, unless they are human.”
“nO thing is yOur's except yOur "bOdy" -&- nO one is yOurs except yOur "sOul”
“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now...”
“The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philoso...”
“It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to...”
“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motiva...”
“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a ...”
“There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.”
“I think about that centurion from time to time and wonder, had he retired to a farm in Campagna, happy with his harvest of grapes and grandchildren, or had he fallen amongst his comrades on some di...”
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”
“The May sunshine makes both the trolls and the elves disappear, he thought. They burst like soap bubbles. Only human beings remain, for a little while. We are a brief song beneath the sky, laughter...”
“Find your truth, live your truth.”
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”