Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. FeynmanMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. LewisOne of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.
DJ KhaledExpecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOur nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise PascalIn order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
Albert CamusThe bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
C. S. LewisWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil GibranHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch SpinozaOnly as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSome people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.
Eckhart TolleI’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.
Brian EnoWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee WilliamsIf you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor DostoevskyAll men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
VoltaireDisease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea BallouTo be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
Christopher HitchensTo die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. MenckenAs a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Isaac NewtonTruth is what works.
William JamesThe highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThat’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
Jordan PetersonThe usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel JohnsonAs soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Margaret AtwoodIt 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 JohnsonEverybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.
Denzel WashingtonMan is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert CamusLaw is mind without reason.
AristotleA weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma GandhiIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWorking conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
Albert CamusIn all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George EliotNothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl MarxAs we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Fidel CastroSearching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
David BowieWhat constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Hermann HesseEveryone 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. LewisWisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David ThoreauYou don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.
Joyce MeyerI’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.
Joyce MeyerThe more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
Paulo CoelhoIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor DostoevskyI am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
PlatoFor what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus ChristSpiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma GandhiDo not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
ChanakyaFreedom without limits is just a word.
Terry PratchettLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SocratesGod doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.
Joyce MeyerThe Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.
Joyce MeyerAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusThere must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
PlatoThe empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
PlatoAs far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert EinsteinBefore the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi