Quotations

Author	Latest Quotations In Descending Order Of Submission
Didzis	All of the world's problems we bitch about will decrease when we stop contributing to them. If we scream for change, we must be willing to make that change. As individuals take up the responsibility to transform themselves, society gradually changes. This is the panacea for our so-called civilization.
John Welwood	The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
Unknown Author	Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses . . on your powers, instead of your problems.
Sir John Lubbock	What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Aristotle	For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Don Marquis	Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Akin A. Awolaja	Where you find yourself tomorrow is a function of the positive decisions and actions you take today.

Author	Previous Quotations In Alphabetical Order By Author
Platoon the movie	Hell is the impossibility of reason.
Abraham Lincoln	If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Agatha Christie	I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing
Agnes Repplier	It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Albert Einstein	Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein	I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein	The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.
Albert J. LaChance	My job as believer is to accept revealed truth as truth, and then to struggle to understand why it is truth.
Albert Schweitzer	Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Aldous Huxley	An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley	The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Alfred A. Montapert	Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alice Batchelder	Links of bondage welded together in the early days of free and eager giving too often become galling later.
Alice Dreger	The organization system arranges the world in such a way as to reinforce that system maker's idea of the world - how what seems important gains in importance, how what seems unimportant fades from view.
Alice von Hildebrand	It is not enough for us to believe; we must know how to live our beliefs.
Alisdair MacIntyre	There is no logical transition which will take one from unbelief to belief. The transition is not in objective considerations at all, but in the person who comes to believe. There are no logical principles which will make the transition.
Allyson Jones	If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
An Episcopal bishop	The Gospel was proclaimed in Judea and became a faith community; it sailed to Athens and became a philosophy; it crossed the Alps to Rome and became an institution; it crossed Europe to England and became a culture; it crossed the Atlantic and became a commercial enterprise.
Anatole France	One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anne Baber	The classic definition of a bore is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Anne Moir	Work for which we are paid is not necessarily more honorable or significant than work for which we are not paid. Prostitutes are paid, mothers aren't.
Anonymous	Authentic experience of the Divine makes one humble; he who is not humble has not had authentic experience of the Divine.
Anonymous	God does not speak in words, but through them.
Anonymous	Going backwards is progress when you have taken a wrong turn. How long it takes to reach the goal is not as important as reaching it.
Anonymous	In order to obtain authentic sources of the profound life, one must seek profound thought--which is meditation; one must seek profound feeling--which is contemplation; and one must seek the primal will beyond desires and longings--which is asceticism. It is thus that conscious participation in authentic spiritual life is gained, and it is thus that the sources of this life are opened.
Anonymous	Just as people from different physical starting points may reach the same destination from different directions, people from different spiritual starting points may attain the same state by different paths. The end cannot be judged by the means; rather, the means must be judged by the end.
Anonymous	May our communities become those of people who learn from everyone instead of teaching everyone!
Anonymous	Mediocrity is the seedbed of genius.
Anonymous	Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Anonymous	Mysticism is the awakening of the soul to the reality of the presence of God.
Anonymous	No one is more hopelessly lost than a fool who thinks he's intelligent.
Anonymous	One knows truly when one understands what one knows, when one feels what he has understood, and when one has put into practice what one has understood and felt.
Anonymous	Sometimes I think ISKCON should be renamed ISMIST - International Society for Misapplication of Spiritual Teachings.
Anonymous	Spiritual asphyxia menaces he who does not practice some form of prayer; he who practices it receives vivifying benediction in some form.
Anonymous	The entire body of scientific theory is nothing but a structure of intellectual as-ifs, attempting to describe human experience.
Anonymous	The initiate is one who knows how to attain knowledge, i.e. who knows how to ask, seek and put into practice the appropriate means in order to succeed.
Anonymous	The spiritual world does not in any way suffer experimenters. One seeks, one asks, one knocks at its door. But one does not open it by force. One waits for it to be opened.
Anonymous	The true mission is not what the human being proposes to do on the earth according to his tastes, his interests and even his ideals, but rather what God wants him to do. Arbitrary "missions," although due to the best intentions in the world, have only contributed confusion to human history. It is to these inopportune "missions" that we owe many crises upsetting the life of mankind's living traditions--interrupting, in the guise of passing comets, the peaceful and constructive flow of true progress.
Anonymous	Those who know the truth are duty-bound to tell others. Those who do not know the truth are duty-bound to seek it. This is the sum and substance of human life.
Anthony Trollope	Till we can become divine we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for a change we sink to something lower."
Anton Boisen E	When the church, the institution which seeks to represent that which is permanent and universal in human society, tends constantly to introduce short cuts and protective devices in order to bolster up the moral self-respect of its faulty members. It becomes over-particular about creedal conformity and ritualistic niceties and in other ways it tends to substitute minor for major virtues and loyalties.
Anton Boisen	Mental disorder is, I hold, the price humanity has to pay for having the power of choice and the capacity for growth, and in some of its forms it is a manifestation of healing power analogous to fever or inflammation in the body...I believe that many forms of insanity are religious rather than medical problems and that they cannot be successfully treated until they are so recognized.
Anton Boisen	Myths existed long before science and express life as it is seen and experienced more accurately than objective scientific assessment.
Aristotle	For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Aristotle	Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Arthur Frank	One of our most difficult duties as human beings is to listen to the voices of those who suffer... These voices bespeak conditions of embodiment that most of us would rather forget our vulnerability to. Listening is hard, but it is also a fundamental moral act; to realize the best potential in post-modern times requires an ethics of listening.
Arthur Koestler	The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation. We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
Arthur Schopenhauer	Who expects that in this world the devils move along with horns and the fools with bells, will be constantly their victim or they will make a game of him.
Augustine	...how are they to call upon the Lord until they have learned to believe in him? And how are they to believe in him without a preacher to listen to?
Augustine	God thirsts to be thirsted after.
Augustine	What is now called the Christian religion existed even among the ancients and was not lacking from the beginning of the human race until 'Christ came in the flesh.' From that time, true religion, which already existed, began to be called Christian [by the followers of Christ].
	Augustine...what a person does against his will is not to his own credit, even if what he does is good in itself.
Author Unknown	...faith is man's relation to transcendent reality, and the mundane objects through which faith is expressed, whatever they be, including...ritual and ceremony, the sacraments, scripture, but also including propositions, belief and other intellectual constructs, have to do with faith insofar, and only insofar, as they serve as activating symbols or effective channels of the reality.
Author Unknown	...the question is not whether man returns to religion and believes in God but whether he lives love and thinks truth. If he does so the symbol systems he uses are of secondary importance. If he does not they are of no importance.
Author Unknown	...to be human...is to live a life within the material realm but one on which the realm of spirit impinges.
Author Unknown	A real ideal for man must be applicable to the world of man's experience. An ideal which is not so applicable is no ideal for man, even though it might entrance angels and redeem Absolutes.
Author Unknown	Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
Author Unknown	Don't pray for greater opportunities; pray for the ability to fully utilize the opportunities you have.
Author Unknown	Each object of knowledge demands a method of knowledge which is proper to it.
Author Unknown	Everything other than the true God is transformed by worship into a demon.
Author Unknown	Freedom is not the opposite of determinism, but of compulsion, of having to act.
Author Unknown	Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts. But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.
Author Unknown	God governs the world and knows his own times and seasons: it is our duty to endeavor not to be unserviceable in this our day and patiently leave the event to Providence.
Author Unknown	Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
Author Unknown	In the minds we call creative as against mere data processors, a great work takes its own time for incubation.
Author Unknown	It is a disgrace to die rich.
Author Unknown	It is impossible for me to recognize greatness which is not united with candor and sincerity towards one's self. The moment I make a discovery of this sort, a man's achievements count for absolutely nothing with me.
Author Unknown	Light and heat are both found in a religious mind duly disposed. Light in due order goes first. It is dangerous to begin with heat, that is with the affections...our affections should grow from inquiry and deliberation...
Author Unknown	One will never be satisfied with the pleasures of the body and mind separated from Krishna, and even things that apparently satisfy for a time will quickly fade, being temporary by nature. Why delight in what is temporary and superficial? Such delight is the true nature of sin.
Author Unknown	Our ideals are like the North Star guiding the mariner. He does not hope ever to reach it, but it shows him the way to go.
Author Unknown	Scripture is not an encyclopedia that tells us everything we need to know about every subject....Our only guarantees are that its teachings are truthful, foundational and sufficient for salvation. Therefore, although all propositions must be tested by Scripture, they need not all be found in Scripture.
Author Unknown	Since the things of the world cannot enter the soul, they are not in themselves an St. John of the Cross encumbrance or harm to it; rather, it is the will and appetite dwelling within that cause the damage when set on these things.
Author Unknown	The law of attraction states that you will experience whatever you are thinking about long enough and deeply enough.
B. N. K. Sharma	Freedom of opinion and independence of thought are the birthright of every philosopher.
B. N. K. Sharma	It would be sheer dogmatism to say that we should not raise logical objections in a case that transcends all reason. In that case, all philosophy should have to be given up as a wild goose chase. The plea of 'transcending logic' or even 'transcendental logic' can be urged with propriety only in cases where the authorities are unanimous...Where conflicting authorities claim to interpret the shruti each to suit his own metaphysics, the employment of reason becomes more important than the bare text itself
B .R Sridhara Maharaja	Power dressed in affection and love, couched in humility--that is Vrindavana
Baltasar Gracian	A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied
Barbara Sher	Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Benjamin Disraeli	One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Benjamin Disraeli	The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
	Benjamin Disraeli Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Bernard Haring	...over the past few centuries a static form of theological expression has lost touch with man, who, by his very nature, is dynamic.
Bernard Haring	A certain principle...may be true and yet propounded with such outworn or feeble arguments as to make those who teach it incredible--and not only in this one matter but with respect to the whole message of faith.
Bernard Haring	A humanity which stops short with the formulations of a certain era is worthy to be buried in a museum.
Bernard Haring	All thought bears the stamp of the thinker's world and his own personality.
Bernard Haring	Any attempt to impose some no infallible doctrine on people against their better convictions will inevitably lead to a breakdown of sincerity, a resort to hypocrisy, or to a lessening of personal efforts toward achieving a deeper understanding.
Bernard Haring	Any attempt to stifle the nature of a person--that is, those natural qualities which are God's gifts--inevitably leads to a vehement concern for self-fulfillment. This can mean a firm decision not to allow anyone to bury our talents in the earth; but it can--as a reaction--degenerate into a frustrating self-consciousness and self-concern. When, on the other hand, those in authority show respect for the particular talents and capabilities of individuals, and thus bring home all the wealth of God's gifts for the common good, it becomes easier for everyone to offer his service and to use to the utmost his opportunities for the good of all.
Bernard Haring	The person discovers his real self by finding the One who calls him and by responding to the call in full recognition of his uniqueness as a person with these particular gifts and in his particular situation.
Bernard Haring	We do not live in the Middle Ages, nor should we wish to return to them. Today is the day God has prepared for our generation and we must cope with our task with the tools and the thinking of today.
Bertrand Russell	Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell	I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.
Bhakti Ananda Goswami	...one must try to grasp and preserve and to perpetuate the best of everything that we as humans have inherited. This means fearlessly facing our inheritance and identifying those pathological things that should no longer be perpetuated.
Bhakti Ananda Goswami	Persons of integrity can be mal-educated or misled and become strong proponents of untruths. Thus it is important not to lump-in-together all of the proponents of a particular perspective, as if they are all of one mind and motivation. Sometimes people are con-artists, but others of great sincerity and integrity can be misled.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati	If you are not engaged in the service of Hari, you will be either a jnani follower of absolute monism, or a karmi performer of scriptural rites for securing pleasures in this life or the next, or an unabashed servant of worldly desires without restraint.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati	The ordinary meaning of the word "Krishna" is an entity which is different from Krishna. It is something that is enveloped by the deluding energy of Krishna. It is an object which is comprehensible to the other gross senses besides the ear. It is a product of our sensuous perception. We shall not defile the word "Krishna" by accepting this meaning.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati	The society which does not place itself under the guidance of those who possess the knowledge of Brahman will sink down to the uttermost depths of degeneration.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati	The only duty of the servant of Godhead is to try to do that by which one's skill in performing the service of Godhead is continuously developed.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	...jnana, which is a means for achieving the Absolute Truth, is also recommended as abhidheya, or a means for achieving the ultimate goal. If one cultivates knowledge of the Supreme Lord, then there is a good possibility of awakening pure love, which is the living entities' prayojana
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	...we have full liberty to reject the wrong idea, which is not sanctioned by the peace of conscience.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	All subjects of this material world are under the jurisdiction of argument, but the soul cannot be seen by any method other than self-realization.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	Although a living entity is never able to ascertain the truth with his small intelligence, a blackish personality with a form of pure consciousness has appeared in my heart and engaged me in the work of ascertaining the truth. For this reason I have boldly taken up this work.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	One has no need of serving a Vaishnava who may have undergone formal initiation but who has never once chanted the Holy Name offenceless.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	The primary engagement of Vaishnavas is to deliver their fallen brothers from the well of material existence.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	When favorable karma and jnana are dovetailed with bhakti, they are called bhakti-yoga. Those who cannot understand this synthesis are improperly engaged either in fruitive activities, speculative knowledge, or demigod worship.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	Party spirit--that great enemy of truth--will always baffle the attempt of the inquirer who tries to gather truth from the religious works of his nation and will make him believe that the Absolute Truth is nowhere except in his old religious book.
Bible Corinthians 13	Love keeps no score of wrongs, does not gloat over other men's sins but delights in the truth.
Bible, Proverbs 11:17	Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
Bible Thess. 5, 5-8	For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. Those who sleep go to sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breast plate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.
Bible Thess. 21	Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Blaise Pascal	I know but one thing, Lord, that it is good to follow you, and bad to offend you. Apart from that, I know not what is good or bad in anything.
Booker T. Washington	Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed
Börne	The light which is spread by so-called official opinions, is like a will o' the wisp which leads us into the mire.
Brian Tracy	Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brooke Foss Westcott	Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brother Aelred Niespolo	We must help each other find the proper form of service we are called to; and help each other to be faithful to what we are called to be.
Bruce R. Reichenbach	Although as critical thinkers we reflect on others' ideas, we properly employ critical thinking not so much to challenge or correct others as to benefit ourselves: to become self-reflective.
Bruce R. Reichenbach	To have our every wish and desire satisfied does little but stoke the flames of desire.
Buddha	Let the wise man guard his thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, very artful, and rushing wherever they list: thoughts well guarded bring happiness.
Buddha	Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha	You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
C. S. Lewis	God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers.
C. S. Lewis	If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis	It is dangerous to press upon a man the duty of getting beyond earthly love when his real difficulty lies in getting so far.
C. S. Lewis	Nothing is falser than the idea that mockery is necessarily hostile.
C. S. Lewis T	he spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must always have been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.
C. S. Lewis	To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God.
C. S. Lewis	We must be thankful to all the people who have helped us, we must honor them and love them. But never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.
C. S. Lewis	What we learn from evidence depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to the evidence.
C. S. Lewis	When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just around the corner
C.S. Lewis	All natural affections...can become rivals to spiritual love: but they can also be preparatory imitations of it, training so to speak of the spiritual muscles which Grace may later put to a higher service; as women nurse dolls in childhood and later nurse children.
C.S. Lewis	The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.
C.S. Lewis	To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue.
Carl Jung	I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery, be it cooling water for the thirsty or the sandy wastes of unfruitful error. The one helps, the other warns. Not the criticism of individual contemporaries will decide the truth or falsity of his discoveries, but future generations
Carl Jung	If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
Carl Jung	One sees what one can best see from oneself.
Carl Jung	The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
Carl Jung T	he building up of prestige is always a product of collective compromise: not only must there be one who wants prestige, there must also be a public seeking somebody on whom to confer prestige.
Carl Jung	The danger of all systems is that they tend to mistake the words which serve as pointers for the realities to which they point.
Carl Jung	The more one-sidedly, rigidly, and absolutely...one position is held, the more aggressive, hostile, and incompatible will the other become, so that at first sight there would seem to be little prospect of reconciling the two. But once the conscious mind admits at least the relative validity of all human opinion, then the opposition loses something of its irreconcilable character.
Carl Jung	True education can only start from naked reality, not from a delusive ideal.
Carl Schurz	Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Chaitanya Charitamrita 1.2.117	Do not, out of laziness, neglect to meditate on the conclusions of the scriptures. From knowledge of the siddhanta, the mind will become fixed on Krishna.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu	The outward union of body with body is not real union. This is an illusion. The real union is the union of soul with soul in the service of the Lord.
Charles Mackay	Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Cherie Carter-Scott	Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
Chinese Proverb	Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb	Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.
Chinese Proverb	If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.
Chuan C. Chang	...an idea is not acceptable unless the student understands why it works
Cicero	I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised men to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Cicero	If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
Claude Bernard	Those who have an excessive faith in their ideas are not well fitted to make discoveries.
Confucius	If a state is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not governed by the principles of reason, riches and honors are the subjects of shame.
Confucius	Learning without reflecting is just a waste of time, contemplating without learning is no good.
Confucius	The person who learns but does not think is lost. The person who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius	When people say this is bad, examine it; when they say this is good, examine it.
Confucius	Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Constantin Stanislavski	Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
Daniel Goleman	There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.
Dante	...earthly fame is but a gust of wind that blows about, shifting this way and that, and as it changes quarters changes name.
Dante	...where Reason spurs the probing of the soul...
Dante	...who sees the need but waits for the request, already is half-guilty of denial....
Dante	...you have the innate faculty of reason, which should defend the threshold of consent. This is the principle on which is based the judgment of your merit - according as it winnows out the good love from the bad.
Dante	I led you here with skill and intellect; from here on, let your pleasure be your guide: the narrow ways, the steep are far below.
Dante	I shall explain the logical necessity of what perplexes you, and thus remove what has obscured your mind.
Dante	O sun that shines to clear a misty vision, such joy is mine when you resolve my doubts that doubting pleases me no less than knowing!
David M. Sherman	Asceticism is the exercise we get defending the borders of our soul and keeping our spiritual house in order as a clean and pleasant dwelling place of our God Who Is Love.
Deepak Chopra	If, through the act of giving, you feel that you have lost something, then the gift is not truly given.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	...in spite of the pain due to our awareness of being still so far removed from God, we should be filled with joy because we have come to know ourselves better and gotten rid of our illusions about our character.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Anxious as we may be at once to communicate the Truth we have unmeritedly received and to light up other souls..., we must always bear in mind that we ourselves cannot fruitfully sow before the divine seed has unfolded to a certain degree in our own souls--which means...a period of maturing.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	By the degree of a man's inner readiness to change, his religious level may be decisively judged.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand	For we have acquired that holy sobriety which renders us unable to bear any but sound doctrine, unlike those who "will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables" 2 Tim. 4:3-4
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Humility is the opposite, not only of all malicious pride but of all forms of self-centered mediocrity, such as emphasis on petty pleasures or honors, any kind of slavery to conventions, any attachment of importance to unimportant concerns, any cowardice, any bourgeois complacency.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	It is implied in...true peace that we shall never be wholly submerged by the vortex of successive tensions which we have to endure. We shall never so forget the true and perennial order of things as to overestimate the task of the moment merely because we are caught in the tension of our effort of realize it.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Not peace as such, but God, is the absolute good.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Not unless we again and again pause to take breath, abandoning ourselves to contemplation, can we escape the danger of losing ourselves in the peripheral and of allowing the deeper meaning of our life to be swamped.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Our possession of the highest human virtue which is humility constitutes the necessary foundation for our progress towards sharing the specifically divine virtue of mercy.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	The more our life is permeated by God, the simpler it becomes. This simplicity is defined by the inward unity which our life assumes because we no longer seek for any but one end: God. No longer do we judge things from different points of view, from that of our temporal interests, for example, or of the interests of others, or of our consideration for public opinion, and in addition to these, from that of our consideration for God's will, as though all these points of view were on a level with each other. One supreme point of view governs our entire life and in subordination to that point of view all else is judged and settled.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	The very concept of an impersonal absolute contains a self-contradiction, for any personal being is in essence superior to everything impersonal.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	True self-knowledge, freedom from all illusions, and a clear recognition of our metaphysical situation are indispensable conditions of our transformation.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand	We cannot be sheltered as finite persons, except in an infinite Person, who alone can fully comprehend us and lift us from the state of dereliction that is inherent in our finiteness.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	We only take true account of a genuine good if we see it in the place where it properly stands in the thought of God. Nor do we fully honor or love a created good of genuine value unless we honor and love God more than that good.
Donald E. Miller	Human beings inevitably bring to their search for truth a background of experiences that predispose them toward particular expressions of religion; furthermore, the way in which they speak of ultimate things reflects the culture in which they live, its language, the limitations of the world view in which they have been acculturated, and so on. Human beings are limited in their powers of conceptualization. They see the world through the filter of their past experiences.
Donald E. Miller	I am suggesting that what we call reality within the religious sphere is a product of the dialectic between the individual with hand-held lamp and the truth that lies beyond the full reach of the beam's illumination. Hence, our attempts to describe this reality are always partial and appropriately identified as social constructions.
Donald E. Miller	It is the desire for a framework of values and meaning which defines, in my view, the essential humanity of man and distinguishes human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Donald E. Miller	Self-development as an end in itself is always bound to fail; character is defined and structured in service to others.
Donna Roberts	A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Dr. Joyce Brothers	Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
E. A. Bennet	True devotion consists neither in fruitless and passing emotion, nor in a certain vain credulity. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of the Second Vatican Council. While religion itself is no escape from reality it is nevertheless true that there are multitudes of religious people who are not ready to pay the price of complete commitment and thoroughgoing honesty which true religion demands. Such people resort to counterfeit coinage and subterfuges of all sorts.
E. M. Forster	It matters so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.
E. M. Forster	Life never gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
e.e. Cummings	To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make me the same as everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
e.e. Cummings	To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Earl Nightingale	We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Edward B. Butler	One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward P. J. Corbett	Many people are alienated rather than persuaded by intemperate language. Clever writers can sometimes be too clever for their own good. It does not take a sledge-hammer to drive a nail.
Edward P.J. Corbett	A genuine truth might well be reduced to absurdity by a witty rhetorician, but it would remain the truth despite its having been discredited in the minds of the audience.
Edward S. Finkelstein	Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up.
Elbert Hubbard	The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Whatever comes, this too shall pass away.
Epictetus	I must die; well, but must I die groaning too? I will speak what appears to be right, and if the despot says, "Then I will put you to death," I will reply, "When did I ever tell you that I was immortal? You will do your part and I mine; it is yours to kill and mine to die intrepid; yours to banish, mine to depart untroubled." We choose the pilot, the sailors, the hour. Afterwards comes a storm. What have I to care for? My part is performed. This matter belongs to the pilot. But the ship is sinking; what then have I to do? That which alone I can do--submit to being drowned without fear, without clamour or accusing of God, but as one who knows that what is born must likewise die.
Eric Hoffer	The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.
Eric Hoffer	The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
Erica Jong	I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erich Fromm	...the prohibition of critical thinking at one point leads to an impoverishment of a person's critical ability in other spheres of thought and thereby impedes the power of reason.
Erich Fromm	Awareness means that the person makes that which he learns his own, by experiencing it, experimenting with himself, observing others and, eventually, gaining a conviction rather than having an irresponsible "opinion."
Erich Fromm	Faith is certainty of conviction based on one's experience of thought and feeling, not assent to propositions on credit of the proposer.
Erich Fromm	If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue--and not a vice--to love myself, since I am a human being too.
	Erich Fromm Love as mutual sexual satisfaction, and love as "teamwork" and as a haven from aloneness, are the two "normal" forms of the disintegration of love in modern Western society, the socially patterned pathology of love.
Erich Fromm	Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character, which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love.
Erich Fromm	Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love.
Erich Fromm	Love should be essentially an act of will, of decision to commit my life completely to that of one other person.
Erich Fromm	Man has never yet ceased striving to produce and to create because productiveness is the source of strength, freedom, and happiness.
Erich Fromm	Masochism is the attempt to get rid of one's individual self, to escape from freedom, and to look for security by attaching oneself to another person. The forms which such dependency assume are manifold. It can be rationalized as sacrifice, duty, or love, especially when cultural patterns legitimatize this kind of rationalization.
Erich Fromm	One discovers the human being in the stranger. In the love for the stranger narcissistic love has vanished. For it means loving another human being in his suchness and his difference from me, and not because he is like me.
Erich Fromm	Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
Erich Fromm	Respect means the concern that the other person should grow and unfold as he is. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me...To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge."
Erich Fromm	The concept and the symbol have the great advantage that they permit people to communicate their experiences; they have the tremendous disadvantage that they lend themselves easily to an alienated use. .
Erich Fromm	The real fall of man is his alienation from himself, his submission to power, his turning against himself even though under the guise of his worship of God
Erich Fromm	There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational that does not give some comfort provided it is shared by a group.
Erich Fromm	To love a person productively implies to care and to feel responsible for his life, not only for his physical existence but for the growth and development of all his human powers. To love productively is incompatible with being passive, with being an onlooker at the loved person's life; it implies labor and care and the responsibility for his growth.
Erich Fromm	To understand realistically and soberly how limited our power is an essential part of wisdom and of maturity; to worship it is masochistic and self-destructive. The one is humility, the other self-humiliation.
Erich Fromm	We must understand every ideal including those which appear in secular ideologies as expressions of the same human need and we must judge them with respect to their truth, to the extent to which they are conducive to the unfolding of man's powers and to the degree to which they are a real answer to man's need for equilibrium and harmony in his world
Erich Fromm	What the majority of people consider to be "reasonable" is that about which there is agreement, if not among all, at least among a substantial number of people; "reasonable", for most people, has nothing to do with reason, but with consensus.
Erich Fromm	While irrational faith is the acceptance of something as true only because an authority or the majority say so, rational faith is rooted in an independent conviction based upon one's own productive observing and thinking, in spite of the majority's opinion
Erich Fromm	While it is true that man's productiveness can create material things, works of art, and systems of thought, by far the most important object of productiveness is man himself.
Erik Erikson	Nothing is more fruitless in the relationships between individuals or groups than to attempt to question the ideals of the adversary by demonstrating that, according to the logic of one's own conscience, he is inconsistent in his preaching. For every conscience, whether in an individual or a group, has not only specific contents but also its own peculiar logic which safeguards its coherence
Erik Erikson	The strength acquired at any stage is tested by the necessity to transcend it in such a way that the individual can take chances in the next stage with what was most vulnerably precious in the previous one.
Ernest Becker	...sin and neurosis are two ways of talking about the same thing--the complete isolation of the individual, his harmony with the rest of nature, his hyper individualism, his attempt to create his own world from within himself. Both sin and neurosis represent the individual blowing himself up to larger than his true size, his refusal to recognize his cosmic dependence.
Ernest Becker	I have had the growing realization over the past few years that the problem of man's knowledge is not to oppose and to demolish opposing views, but to include them in a larger theoretical structure.
Ernest Becker	If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.
Ernest Becker	No human relationship can bear the burden of godhood, and the attempt has to take its toll in some way on both parties.
Ethel Barrymore	You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
Evelyn Underhill	Philosophers, are our stepping-stones to higher things; [they] interpret to our dull minds, entangled in the sense world, the ardent vision of those who speak to us from the dimension of Reality.
F. C. S. Schiller	Reality is like an ancient oracle, and does not respond until it is questioned. And to attain our responses we make free to use all the devices which our whole nature suggests.
F. C. S. Schiller	That reality and that alone will be pragmatically absolute, which every one will accept as real and no one will seek to alter. For a universe completely satisfied would not seek to change itself, and indeed could not so much as entertain the thought of change.
Fernando Flores	Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Francis Bacon	If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon	They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Beaumont	He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
Frederick Copleston	No philosophy can really be understood fully unless it is seen in its historical setting and in the light of its connection with other systems
Frederick Locker Lampson	I ask you, what is human life? Is not it a maimed happiness--care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter tomorrow?
Friedrich Nietzsche	He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; One cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche	Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but the soil of his plants!
Fallacy, by Fearnside & Holther	...nobody is entitled to an irresponsible opinion on anything.
Fallacy, by Fearnside and Holther	...it is not beyond the power of every responsible person to refrain from judging the practices of other ethnic, religious, occupational, or class groups, by the principles of one's own little place in the world. The chances are that, far from being the basic principles of human conduct, these reflect only the most parochial or transitory prejudices.
Fallacy, by Fearnside and Holther	What a man can always do is act in humility. He can learn to regard his hypotheses as tentative aids to understanding, rather than as eternal principles or absolute dogmas. When the pressure of events forces a man to take sides, to do what he can, he should recognize that he is engaging in a trial and error process, which, though he fail, may still afford rich experience for future guidance.
G. K. Chesterton	It is true that there is not, as pacifists and prigs imagine, the least inconsistency between loving men and fighting them, if we fight them fairly and for a good cause.
George Berkeley	...though we should grant a notion to be never so universally and steadfastly adhered to, yet this is weak argument of its truth to whoever considers what a vast number of prejudices and false opinions are everywhere embraced with the utmost tenaciousness, by the unreflecting which are the far greater part of mankind.
George Berkeley	He must surely be either very weak, or very little acquainted with the sciences, who shall reject a truth that is capable of demonstration, for no other reason but because it is newly known and contrary to the prejudices of mankind.
George Berkeley	It is a hard thing to suppose that right deductions from true principles should ever end in consequences which cannot be maintained or made consistent. We should believe that God has dealt more bountifully with the sons of men than to give them a strong desire for that knowledge which he had placed quite out of their reach.
George Berkeley	It is not my business to account for every opinion of the philosophers.
George Berkeley	It is to me a sufficient reason not to believe the existence of any thing, if I see no reason for believing it.
George Berkeley	Only if it is so many signs provided by God for informing, admonishing and directing us is the world suited to human intelligence.
George Berkeley	This present world is not designed or adapted to make rational souls happy.
George Berkeley	Where there is so much prejudice to be encountered, a bare and naked demonstration of the truth will scarce suffice. We must also satisfy the scruples that men may raise in favor of their preconceived notions, show whence the mistake arises, how it came to spread, and carefully disclose and root out those false persuasions that an early prejudice might have implanted in the mind.
George Bernard Shaw	A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.
George Bernard Shaw	Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Fox	Revelation is not confined to the Scriptures, though they are a true Word of God--it enlightens all men who are true disciples. The Spirit of God speaks directly through them, gives them their message, and quickens them for service.
George Orwell	The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, leading articles, manifestoes, White papers and the speeches of undersecretaries do, of course, vary from party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, homemade turn of speech. When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – bestial, atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity. Contributor's note: What applies in the politics conceived by Orwell, applies equally in "religious institutions."
George Santayana	Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Washington	Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Gerald G. May	Nothing that is authentically spiritual can finally be justified to someone who disagrees.
Gerald G. May	"Loving presence" with other people is not something you can measure by the number of good deeds done or your own or others' expectations met. In some cases love is tough, and it will make people unhappy. In other cases, your own response to love may involve a temporary pulling-back from some relationships, and it may take some time before you can return in greater fullness.
Gerald G. May	...as people deepen in their love for God and others, they become ever more open; not only more appreciative of the beauty and joys of life, but also more vulnerable to its pain and brokenness.
Gerald G. May	Be cautious about willpower and resolution; they are likely to become obstacles themselves.
Gerald G. May	Grace comes as a gift. We can neither earn it nor make it happen. But grace invites us to participate; it needs our involvement.
Gerald G. May	I know it is a partial understanding, but sometimes I think the chief purpose of humankind is that there can be someone to say, "Wow!"
Gerald G. May	Never assume that your spiritual life is less deep or valuable because it seems less colourful than someone else's.
Gerald G. May	Some institutions just need to wither away from their own gangrene, and your leaving may mercifully hasten the end.Gerald G. May
	There is nothing inherent in any spiritual practice that guarantees it will be used for good and not for ill
Gerald G. May	We grieve according to how much of ourselves we have already given; we yearn according to how much we would give, if only we could.
Gerald G. May	We have come to believe that distractions are real external impediments instead of choices we make
.Gerald G. May	We have so vastly overcomplicated our lives that the homeward journey toward natural simplicity is tortuous.
Gerald G. May	What divine power ever said we should adjust ourselves to the ways of our world? Is our society so perfect, so just, so loving that it is worth adapting ourselves to?
Gerald May	An accurate perception of reality lies beyond both traditional psychotherapy and traditional religion.
Gerhard Ebeling	...to go ahead with the critical examination of our foundations, to let everything burn that will burn and without reservations await what proves itself unbearable, genuine, true - and to adopt this attitude at the risk that much that seemed established may begin to rock....