The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing. —Stewart Edward White More about this quote Tags: life progress change growth fruit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This work is about transformation — from the person we are to the person we really are. In the end, we can't be anyone else. —Marion Rosen More about this quote Tags: identity work transformation Someone else Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. —Henri Frederic Amiel More about this quote Tags: life knowledge suffering desire art of living Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: knowledge safety identity change world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity. —Carlos Castaneda More about this quote Tags: thought infinity intent defeat wish indulgence invulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After the Easter Rebellion of 1916 in Ireland, Eamon De Valera was sentenced to penal servitude. En route to his prison, he took out his pipe and was about to light it when he stopped suddenly and said, "I will not let them deprive me of this pleasure in jail!" He immediately threw away the pipe and from that day never smoked again. —Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: history rebellion prison jail Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. —Joan Didion More about this quote Tags: life will responsibility self-respect willingness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. —Gautama Buddha More about this quote Tags: self victory self-mastery self-control conquering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom lies beyond conformity or rebellion. —Sam Keen More about this quote Tags: freedom rebellion conformity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. —Jean Baudrillard More about this quote Tags: identity self liberation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One must give back the stare of the universe. Anybody can. —Hortense Calisher More about this quote Tags: wonder universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the judge calls the criminal's name out, he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men. —Jean Genet More about this quote Tags: justice crime judgment biology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: society evil good punishment isolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great thieves punish the little ones. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: justice morality stealing thievery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're condemned to death they have to give you one last meal of your choice. What is that all about? A group of people plans to kill you, so they want you to eat something you like? Do they think the food part will take your mind off the dying part? Or do they prefer to kill you when you're just coming off a peak experience and full of positive energy? —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: mind death food energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email