Inspirational Quotes - Page 212

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.