Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

All Quotes

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

—Democritus

More about this quote

Tags:
pride
Permalink for this quote

Pride sullies the noblest character.

—Claudianus

More about this quote

Tags:
character pride
Permalink for this quote

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

—Charles Caleb Colton

More about this quote

Tags:
success pride winning betrayal
Permalink for this quote

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

—Mahatma Gandhi

More about this quote

Tags:
God neighbors seeking
Permalink for this quote

The story is told of a holy man who lived in a large house on top of a remote mountain. Over time, news of the holy man's greatness spread throughout the land, and many seekers made their way over the mountains in hopes of having even a brief moment with this saintly being. Each aspirant was greeted at the door by a servant, who ushered him or her into the house and guided the visitor through several rooms. After a few minutes the servant and aspirant arrived at another door, which led out of the back of the house. The servant opened the door and indicated to the visitor that it was time to leave. "But I was hoping to have even a few minutes with the holy man!" the aspirant would utter in frustration. "You just did," answered the holy man as he closed the door.

—Alan Cohen

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water; the next, your son bouncing on your knees, or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.

—Nikos Kazantzakis

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life.

—Pearl S. Buck

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Life happens to be both a severe and an endlessly kind teacher. It's the only authority that you need to trust. And this teacher, this authority, is everywhere. You don't have to go to some special place to find this incomparable teacher; you don't have to have some especially quiet or ideal situation: in fact, the messier it is, the better. The average office is a great place. The average home is perfect. . . . That is where the authority, the teacher is.

—Charlotte Joko Beck

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Sit at the feet of the master long enough, and they'll start to smell.

—John Sauget

More about this quote

Tags:
humor feet masters
Permalink for this quote

I am not so arrogant as to presume that only my intellectual superiors can teach me. If such were the case then the teacher would learn nothing from her disciples, the parents nothing from their children, and I nothing from the animals, from whom I have learned so much.

—Caroline Cozza

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Spiritual seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

—Eckhart Tolle

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.

—Aldous Huxley

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Don't put your faith in anyone. You have it all inside you. You're always asking the masters. Why don't you ask yourselves? Forget the masters.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti

More about this quote

Tags:
faith experts masters
Permalink for this quote

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

—Willa Cather

More about this quote

Tags:
trees
Permalink for this quote