If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion — the relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: humanity success time urgency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. —Colette More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My feet are cold," one says, and the legless man replies: "So are mine. So are mine. —Kentucky folklore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for joy. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: truth space grief joy healing relief overcoming test room Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. —Eudora Welty More about this quote Tags: reality mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living. —Etty Hillesum More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So many gods, so many creeds, / so many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox More about this quote Tags: God kindness sadness need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light" — that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. . . . The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: truth religion philosophy music belief songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept. —Jean Cocteau More about this quote Tags: love hate happiness secret scandal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? —Samuel Beckett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The young student said to his master, "Am I in possession of Buddha consciousness?" The master said, "No." The student said, "Well, I've been told that all things are in the possession of Buddha consciousness: the rocks, the trees, the butterflies, the birds, the animals, all beings." The master said, "You are correct. All things are in possession of Buddha consciousness: the rocks, the trees, the butterflies, the bees, the birds, the animals, all beings – but not you." "Not me? Why not?" "Because you are asking this question. —D. T. Suzuki More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: reality fear humor dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ultimate destiny of the human spirit is a condition in which all identification with the . . . finite self will disappear. . . . As a minor dream vanishes completely on awakening, awareness will be eclipsed in the blazing light of total awareness. Some say, "The dewdrop slips into the shining sea." Others say the metaphor would be more accurate if it pictured the ocean as entering the dewdrop itself. —Huston Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email