To get an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries we have only to look at their pleasures. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: pleasure misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. —E. F. Schumacher More about this quote Tags: peace economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and religion. But it creates a great temptation. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: technology spirituality religion temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is well to remember that by the time-scale of the universe, the shapes of all things and systems are as fugitive and evanescent as those clouds driven before a gale, which coalesce and dissolve as they go. —David Pye More about this quote Tags: reality perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few people have the imagination for reality. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: reality imagination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature. —Susan Griffin More about this quote Tags: identity sadness nature concept Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The attitude that I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: wonder life joy interesting celebration noticing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Truth, poor child, was nobody's daughter. She took off her clothes and jumped in the water. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Tags: truth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I remember a medicine man in Africa who said to me almost with tears in his eyes: "We have no dreams anymore since the British are in the country." When I asked him why, he answered, "The District Commissioner knows everything." —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: wonder power knowledge dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. —William S. Burroughs More about this quote Tags: wonder questions learning knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway. —Clyde B. Aster More about this quote Tags: humor language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. —John Donne More about this quote Tags: power words romance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: success revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: wonder mind religion perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There’s no quick fix for grief. No shortcuts, no easy answer, no way to erase it. Only time can do that, and even then, just barely. —Alyson Noël in Night Star More about this quote Tags: time memory grief sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email