Thrive Quotes - Page 9

• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Sex, Laughter

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• Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Pockets, Want

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• May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration.

  Stephanie Kaza

  Inspiration, Heart, Tree

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• I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

  Nicki Minaj

  Song, Winning, Conquer

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• It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

  Stockard Channing

  Moving, Media, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Struggle, Home

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

  Rumi

  Rain, Angel, Thinking

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• There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is.

  Noam Chomsky

  Dark, Energy, Mass

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Technology News Intreview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the contributions of the intelligentsia to enhancing their own power and the power of those they serve.

  Noam Chomsky

  Simple, Issues, Effort

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.345, AK Press

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• Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jesus, Powerful, Church

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Theology News Interview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Distance, Smartphones

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Mean, Government

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.33, Race Point Publishing

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• You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Becoming, Slave

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.26, Random House

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• To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution.

  Max More

  Years, Machines, Evolution

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• An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Challenges, Insects

  "Our Cosmic Patch". Interview with Helen Matsos, www.astrobio.net. January 3, 2005.

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• Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stoicism, Feels, Havens

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.39, Modern Library

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• The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Action, Obstacles

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.162, Modern Library

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• Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

  Og Mandino

  Desert, Dry, Green

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• Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

  Og Mandino

  Art, Practice, Haste

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• So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Laughing, Poor

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.99, Bantam

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• A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.

  Rumi

  Moving, Shadow, Sun

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• Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

  Rumi

  Heartbroken, Pain, Love Is

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• Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

  Rumi

  Kings, Shadow, Sun

  "Masnavi I Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí". Book edited by Edward Henry Whinfield. Book IV, Story IV: "Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself", 1898.

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• Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.

  Richard Hugo

  Hard Work, Waiting, Lucky

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• So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Cells, Blood, Years

  "Q&A: Kurzweil on tech as a double-edged sword". Interview with Natasha Lomas, www.cnet.com. November 19, 2008.

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