All Things Quotes - Page 40

• Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

  Thales

  "he Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

  Xenophanes

  Science, Earth, Matter

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• Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

  Xenophanes

  Men, Doe, Chance

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• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, Air, Feet

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

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• We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.

  Dada Vaswani

  Heart, Friendly, Goodness

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• The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.

  John Welwood

  Heart, Perfect, Sun

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Truth, Reality, People

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  Barbara Jordan

  Kings, Mistake, Dark

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• Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

  Epictetus

  Reality, Habit, Pleasant

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• When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Peace, Moving, Meditation

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• All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Wise, Men, People

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• Success is as dangerous as failure.
  Hope is as hollow as fear.
  
  What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?
  Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
  you position is shaky.
  When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
  you will always keep your balance.
  
  What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
  Hope and fear are both phantoms
  that arise from thinking of the self.
  When we don't see the self as self,
  what do we have to fear?
  
  See the world as your self.
  Have faith in the way things are.
  Love the world as your self;
  then you can care for all things.

  Laozi

  Fear, Failure, Mean

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• The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside.

  Moses Thatcher

  Fear, Failure, Eye

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• For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thanksgiving, Song, Sweet

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• Love is the cause of unity in all things.

  Aristotle

  Love, Unity, Causes

  Aristotle (1933). “Oeconomica”

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• If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Diversity, Unity

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• The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.

  Zhuangzi

  Sky, Space, Unity

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• For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

  John Sharp Williams

  Retirement, Judgment, Retiring

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• We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of the world; but unless we keep alive a realization that all these blessings come from God and are a part of our great spiritual heritage, they may crumble as ashes in our hands. "In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things and obey not his commandments."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Men, Blessing

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• Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

  Sophocles

  Time, Secret, Secrecy

  "Hipponous". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 280,

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• All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

  Mencius

  Perfect, Insightful, Would Be

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• Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reality, Source, Found

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• Glory be to God for dappled things-
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
  For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
  Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough;
  And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
  
  All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
  With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
  He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
  Praise him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Life, Sweet, Couple

  "Pied Beauty" l. 7 (written 1877)

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• The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all things attain their highest expression, for the universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Expression, Definitions

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• I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

  Amy Tan

  Opportunity, Events, Looks

  Amy Tan (1990). “The Joy Luck Club”

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