Source Of Life Quotes - Page 3

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

William Jennings Bryan

Earth, Assuming, Creation

William Jennings Bryan (1922). “The menace of Darwinism”

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Alan Watts

Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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Life can only be understood backwards.

Mackenzie Astin

Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

"Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Meditation, Purpose, Consciousness

"I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 13, 1973.

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Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

Eckhart Tolle

Dog, Cat, Animal

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World”, p.54, New World Library

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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.

Eric Burdon

California, People, Water

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For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.

Alexander Schmemann

Thinking, Dying, World

Alexander Schmemann (1973). “For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy”, p.17, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with the mundane tasks of her Carmelite convent: the washing of pots, the sweeping of floors, the folding of laundry. At some point of grace, the mundane became for her a sort of prayer, a way she could experience her ever-present connection to the divine pattern which is the source of life. She began then to see the face of God in the folded sheets.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Christian, Prayer, Grace

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One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is compassion a female image suggesting source of life and nourishment but it also has a feeling dimension: God as compassionate Spirit feels for us as a mother feels for the children of her womb. Spirit feels the suffering of the world and participates in it. . . .

Marcus Borg

Mother, Children, Compassion

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Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

Eugene Kennedy

Spirit, Breathe, Mercy

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The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.

Issey Miyake

Rain, Moving, Fall

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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Thomas More

Emotional, Individuality, Individualism

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

W. H. Murray

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Simone de Beauvoir

Men, Weakness, Danger

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All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.

Jean Goss

Inspirational Love, Peace, People

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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Strength, Fate

Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Laozi

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

Henri Nouwen

Christian, Inspiration, Forgiving

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Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.

Xinran

Thinking, Water, Giving

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I don't believe that God is a fussy faultfinder in dealing with theological ideas. He who provides forgiveness for a sinful life will also surely be a generous judge of theological reflection. Even an orthodox theologian can be spiritually dead, while perhaps a heretic crawls on forbidden bypaths to the sources of life.

Helmut Thielicke

Believe, Reflection, Ideas

Helmut Thielicke (1962). “A Little Exercise for Young Theologians”, p.37, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

Carl Jung

Religious, Thinking, Psychology

Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.

E. M. Forster

Beautiful, Men, August

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As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Men, Sea, Sky

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Stanley Appelbaum (2006). “Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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