Philosophy Quotes - Page 74

We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind." Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, "Or imagining that we do.

Learning how to transcend consciousness to a higher consciousness is a blissful journey and the ultimate essence of life.

Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand.

Oh! Let me love forever.Love is the joy and charm.Without beauty of love, life is a lifeless flower.

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't bear. The strong can forget, can shut out history. Very good. Even if it is self-flattery to speak of strength--these aesthetic philosophers, they take a posture, but power sweeps postures away. Still, it's true you can't go on transposing one nightmare into another, Nietzsche was certainly right about that. The tender-minded must harden themselves. Is this world nothing but a barren lump of coke? No, no, but what sometimes seems a system of prevention, a denial of what every human being knows. I love my children, but I am the world to them, and bring them nightmares. I had this child by my enemy. And I love her. The sight of her, the odor of her hair, this minute, makes me tremble with love. Isn't it mysterious how I love the child of my enemy? But a man doesn't need happiness for himself. No, he can put up with any amount of torment--with recollections, with his own familiar evils, despair. And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.

For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.

We are all planted in God's vineyard and our lives are filled with potentials and purpose and we have all been given the hopes to anchor our lives even in the most disappointed times. So God is waiting to see what you and I will make out of the raw materials that He has given to us. He is waiting to see what we will make out of the discouragement and disappointment. I believe that in those deepest places of disappointment that the greatest grace will manifest.

When you love yourself, then you are at peace. Wants or needs cannot destroy it

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change

Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.

Enjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life.

Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.

When someone criticizes you, give them two gifts- your smile and a compliment.

God's perspectives requires persistence. To have God's perspective in the world we live in requires persistence.

A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you’re wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs.

Three things to give up to be happier: 1. Never complain, condemn, or criticize. 2. Give up anger, fear, and resentment. 3. Give up the desire to impress and control others.

There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him.

Be a guiding light in the darkness of hatred.

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.

A baby’s laughter is the sweetest music that touches every heart.

People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!

There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.

Don't be afraid to talk because in the long run, you will be afraid that you were too silent.

What you love will live in your heart and grow.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Do as I do, not as I say -- observance often tells me more.

The beauty of the past lies in-between the perpetual unhappiness of the future and of those who live it.

A true friend accepts you as you are.

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

An action taken with positive thoughts will never produce negative results.

When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as me it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. It is so difficult to keep 'heights that the soul is competent to gain.' We think in eternity, but we move slowly through time; and how slowly time goes with us who lie in prison I need not tell again, nor of the weariness and despair that creep back into one's cell, and into the cell of one's heart, with such strange insistence that one has, as it were, to garnish and sweep one's house for their coming, as for an unwelcome guest, or a bitter master, or a slave whose slave it is one's chance or choice to be.

Don’t let any tragic event or any people pull you away from the path of peace. Be strong and attract others to your path toward peace.

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

Only the Saviour saves souls.

Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.

Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding.But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same.Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age.

Ah! Summer is here. Celebrate the lights, dance with the blooming flowers, swim with the heart touching waves, sing under the dreamy starlight, dance with the winds, fall in love with the blue sky and the simple joys of life.

What is yours today, you will lose some day; nothing is permanent, so don’t make it a big deal.

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

Happiness is a perception of what you have, not what you should have.

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

Love, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness are the secrets of all peace and happiness.

You know, sometimes I think this is just not it,” he said, his glasses flashing from the early night’s light. He turned toward me in a thoughtful pause.“You know what I mean, Tom?” he asked. “It’s just not.

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

Knowledge becomes power when you share it.

Don't be sad that it's over.Be glad that you ever lived to see it.

Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust.

You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Every morning the sun rises with a golden glow to reveal the ineffable magnificence of life.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

Even though storms will come, never fear to bloom.

It's never too late to love and live again.

Your love is the light that will drive away all the darkness that surrounds you.

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.