All Things Quotes - Page 22

• Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Creating, Soul, Together

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

  Meister Eckhart

  Long

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• Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

  Mother Teresa

  Sacrifice, Soul, Trying

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.33, Random House

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• Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Buddhist, Heart, Essence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.137, New World Library

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Fishing, Rivers

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

  William Bradford

  Light, Hands, Giving

  William Bradford (1870). “A Dialogue, or third conference between some young men born in New England, and some ancient men which cam out of Holland and Old England, concerning the Church and the government thereof ... Edited, with a preface and notes, by Charles Deane. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society”, p.6

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• A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Giving, Sound

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.33, UNM Press

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• ... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.33, e-artnow

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• Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

  Amelia Barr

  Cheerful, Mastery, Trials

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• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Pride, Men

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• Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

  Anthony Marra

  Definitions, Bugs, Exclusion

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• Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful, Mistake, Believe

  "Beautiful Creatures". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Of all things I liked books best.

  Nikola Tesla

  Book

  "My Inventions" by Nikola Tesla, (Ch. 1), 1919.

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• But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love Is, Emotional, Cold

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.173, Lulu.com

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• Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, House, Unrest

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Long, Use, Turns

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• Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.

  Paul Celan

  Strong, World, Hours

  Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

  Alice Hoffman

  Changed, Humans, Moved

  Twitter post from Jul 02, 2016

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• It is said that in death, all things become clear.

  Dan Brown

  Said, Clear

  Dan Brown (2007). “Digital Fortress: A Thriller”, p.1, Macmillan

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• Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Midnight, Hours

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

  John Ruskin

  Happiness, Expression, Law

  John Ruskin (1900). “The Stones of Venice (Complete)”, p.763, Library of Alexandria

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• That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.

  Brother Lawrence

  Believe, Practice, Three

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “Mystical Paths to God: Three Journeys”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all things love is the most potent.

  Maria Montessori

  Love Is, Parental, Montessori

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• The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Perspective, Healthy

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, University of Chicago Press

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• But then it passed, as all things do.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.15, A&C Black

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