Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel JohnsonThere have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.
Billy Graham‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William JamesThere is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hermann HesseIf we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald ReaganOnly when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Khalil GibranTo be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.
William JamesI think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
Taylor SwiftThe woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert FrostTalent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
J. K. RowlingThe last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise PascalIf you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai LamaThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark TwainThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis BaconFor me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinStart with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King SolomonI believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Joel OsteenNature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da VinciIt is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhat goes up must come down.
Isaac NewtonNature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Emily DickinsonEverything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.
RihannaThe earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
ChanakyaGod always wants us to be growing.
Joel OsteenWhenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.
Beyonce KnowlesEvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur SchopenhauerA man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
Aldous HuxleyNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
SocratesThe first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert SchweitzerEvery man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich NietzscheFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiTo know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
SocratesBeing brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly PartonWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinI came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘
Mark TwainWe are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.
John F. KennedyI do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.
Virat KohliThe real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. LewisGod works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin FranklinI have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert EinsteinBetter to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul SartreBut I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Alan WattsThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John MuirEveryone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
C. S. LewisThis thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.
Charles SpurgeonTis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander PopeI make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher HitchensI don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
Jimmy CarterIt is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph AddisonGod is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VoltaireWhy do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich NietzscheOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. ChestertonStrong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.
Wayne DyerThought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas CarlyleWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William JamesSir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln