There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: attention understanding patience weirdness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: dragons heroes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it’s usually too late, we’ve used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It’s hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: love time change work magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: wisdom freedom happiness ego seriousness fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: politics love rules help honor security free Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: love uniqueness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Both speech and silence transgress. —Zen saying More about this quote Tags: silence speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us, and call that handful of sand the world. —Robert Pirsig More about this quote Tags: wonder awareness perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: joy prayer desire abundance need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: God words experience joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: wonder life prayer veneration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile. —Edward Hoagland More about this quote Tags: wisdom equanimity playfulness calmness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning. —John Cowper Powys More about this quote Tags: spirituality wisdom poetry mistake Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic, and intelligent who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspect of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: attention politics intelligence philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward him. —Meister Eckhart More about this quote Tags: God purpose Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email