The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Charles BukowskiA man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.
Mahatma GandhiWhatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
Richard M. NixonEveryone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Kurt VonnegutWhen power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. KennedyA lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Bill ShanklyI 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.
John MuirLiterature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.
Christopher HitchensHere ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
John MuirI wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
Alexander the GreatA nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma GandhiMy heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.
Haruki MurakamiI did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘
Noam ChomskyI believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.
Steve JobsAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiContention existed before the earth was formed.
Russell M. NelsonWhere there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
SocratesMaybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous HuxleyIt is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William JamesSomewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.
EminemWho shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
Virginia WoolfNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao TzuIn the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark TwainThe heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise PascalI’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.
Jurgen KloppIn 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 CamusLive your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel KantWhat 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 WilliamsI don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.
Billie EilishTo see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
ConfuciusThe distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert EinsteinThe soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
Eckhart TolleBack in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
Kurt VonnegutWe do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PlatoAs 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 EmersonMetaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William JamesI am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.
Anthony HopkinsTheology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. MenckenThe union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph AddisonI really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
BonoI think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. LewisMen do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor DostoevskyWhat we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisDo not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert HubbardI existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Khalil GibranLet us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich NietzscheLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil GibranMen’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl MarxI am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
Angelina JolieLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James MadisonIt is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
HeraclitusIt is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl JungNever be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten BoomFaith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
Wayne DyerI believe in being an innovator.
Walt DisneyYesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
Bob DylanWe must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIf we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Stephen Hawking