Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. —Jack Kerouac More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anyone can build a house of wood and bricks, but . . . that sort of home is not our real home; it's only nominally ours. It's a home in the world, and it follows the ways of the world. Our real home is inner peace. An external, material home may well be pretty, but it is not very peaceful. There's this worry, and then that; this anxiety, and then that. . . . It's external to us [and] sooner or later we'll have to give it up. It's not a place we can live in permanently, because it doesn't truly belong to us; it's part of the world. Our body is the same: we take it to be self, to be "me" and "mine," but in fact it's not really so at all; it's another worldly home. —Ajahn Chah More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I no longer expect things to make sense. I know there is no safety. But that does not mean there is no magic. It does not mean there is no hope. It simply means that each of us has reason to be wishful and frightened, aspiring and flawed. And it means that, to the degree we are lost, it is on the same ocean, in the same night. —Elizabeth Kaye More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In my lifetime, I have lost my country and have been reduced to being totally dependent on the goodwill of others. I have also lost my mother, and most of my tutors and gurus have passed away, although I now have a few new gurus. Of course these are tragic incidents, and I feel sad when I think about them. However, I don't feel overwhelmed by sadness. Old, familiar faces disappear, and new faces appear, but I still maintain my happiness and peace of mind. —14th Dalai Lama More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step toward a real humanity. —Nelson DeMille More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The British Airways steward announced that the in-flight movie would be Chariots of Fire. "Is that the only one?" I asked. "We are also showing Gandhi," he replied. "Where do I have to sit to see it?" I responded. "I'm sorry, sir, but Gandhi is only showing in first class." The irony seemed to escape him. —Jim Wallis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. —Confucius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is the open-mouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. —Henry George More about this quote Tags: society poverty hell Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things — but not so dismal as the wandering . . . where beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature. —Charles Dickens More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money . . . buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors. . . . The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: power silence privacy money neighbors quiet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. —Gaston Bachelard More about this quote Tags: peace home dreaming houses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: soul home rootedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. —Simone de Beauvoir More about this quote Tags: happiness permanence home separation houses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted out six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart — but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do; it's the way that you do it. —Francis Gay More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email