All Things Quotes - Page 8

• Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

  Dogen

  Ideas, Voice, Unity

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• All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

  John Dryden

  Death, Fate, Decay

  'MacFlecknoe' (1682) l. 1

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  The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Attributed in "Einstein: The Life and Times" by Ronald W. Clark, (p. 737), 1971.

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• O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Men, Hype

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Native American, Circles

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Alive, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

  Pope Francis

  Quests, Mets, Certainty

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.97, A&C Black

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• Energy and persistence conquer all things.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Blaine McCormick, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times”, Entrepreneur Pr

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• Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Hate, Haste Makes Waste

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• If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Poor Richard, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• All things are difficult before they are easy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 560, 1732.

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• I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Spring, Real

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• All things are only transitory.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Transitory

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• Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mean, Giving, Advice

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Talks Hygiene, Beauty Routines And Her Onscreen Characters For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Acting, Literature, Columbia

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• It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

  Augustus Hare

  Loss, Evil, Prejudice

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• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Wicked, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

  Adolf Hitler

  Father, Struggle, Mean

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Running, Men, Ideas

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love Life, Mind, Universal

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.31, Penguin

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• The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhism, Ideas, Causes

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• Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Good Day, Light

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.264

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• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Thinking, Criminal Mind

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• The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

  Robert Lanza

  Islands, Flying, Purpose

  "A New Theory of the Universe". Essay by Robert Lanza, theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2007.

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