Causes Quotes - Page 11

• The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Climbing, Mountain, Ulcers

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness? As the cause of my experience, or at the effect of it?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1996.

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• Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Peace, Thinking

  "Written in London. September, 1802" l. 11 (1807)

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• Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Words Of Wisdom, Principles

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• But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did
  they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Deployment, Principles, Events

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

  Paulo Coelho

  Hysteria, Imagination, Worry

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• This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ego, Body, Consciousness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.864, Manonmani Publishers

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• In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements into harmony with each other. If the expressive movement which which follows the idea is retarded through mechanical causes, as is the case in writing ... such anticipations make their appearance with particular ease.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Writing, Ideas, Psychology

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• Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

  Mariah Carey

  Confidence, Light, Shining

  Song: Can't Take That Away, Album: Rainbow, 1999

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• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Friends, Dream, Real

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• A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Drama

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• But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Hate, Feelings

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• We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Absence, Existence

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• Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Trust, Knowing

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Pimpin' ain't dead 'cause I be the life line.

  Lil Wayne

  Pimp, Lines, Life Line

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• Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Helping Others, Suffering

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Produce, Given

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Cheer

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hate, Justice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

  Ingrid Law

  Heartache, Useless, Leaving Me

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• I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Long, Mind

  Acceptance Speech at Hyannis Armory, Hyannis, Massachusetts, www.jfklibrary.org. November 09, 1960.

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• All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

  Graham Chapman

  Attitude, Ideas, Sparks

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• O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end.

  Guru Angad

  Fire, Names, Achievement

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• It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each other, since they were ruled by very different laws, governed by opposite principles, since they had neither the same morals, nor the same customs, since they were animated by unlike dispositions which did not permit them to judge of anything in the same way, it must be therefore that the general cause of anti-Semitism has always resided in Israel itself and not in those who have fought against Israel.

  Bernard Lazare

  Country, Race, Israel

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• I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman

  Bill Kaulitz

  Jobs, One Day, Body

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