Causes Quotes - Page 26

• Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Flow, Effects

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• How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.

  Chris Prentiss

  Believe, Reality, New Experiences

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.14, BookBaby

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• Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

  Chris Prentiss

  Stress, Anxiety, Brain

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.27, BookBaby

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• Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

  Meher Baba

  Giving Not Receiving, Oneness, Delight

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• We`re not here for a long time, we`re here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.

  Mike Ness

  Tomorrow May Never Come, Sky, Long

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• A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Design, Dangerous

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• I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.

  Alexander Spotswood

  Husband, Taken, Virginia

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• When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Self, The End Of The Day

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• Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Philosophical

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

  Scott Adams

  Happiness, Fun, Optimistic

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• Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

  Hippocrates

  Powerful, Disease, Wellness

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• Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.

  Neal Barnard

  Loss, Soda, Kidneys

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• If you don't have a cause bigger than yourself, you won't get beyond yourself.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Inspirational, Bigger, Ifs

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• Dedicate your life to a cause that inspires you and also greatly serves others. Master plan your life. If you don't fill your day with high priorities, it will automatically become filled with low priorities.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Inspirational, Priorities, Inspire

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• The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Evil, Victory

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• Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Self, Roots

  Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

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• Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

  Alan Watts

  Acceptance, Frustration, Men

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• He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

  Nathaniel Chapman

  Fighting, Fate, Successful

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• Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined.

  Avicenna

  Philosophy, Science, Medicine

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

  Francis Bacon

  Circles, Medicine, Disease

  "Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis".

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• The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.

  Theodor Schwann

  Science, Cells, Growth

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• Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Daughter, Mouths

  "Louis C.K.: Chewed Up". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.

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• Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Two

  Letter to J.S. Switzer on April 23, 1953. "The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry". Book by H. Floris Cohen, p. 234, 1994.

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• Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

  B. C. Forbes

  School, Men, Alertness Is

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Kiss me, please kiss me
  But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
  You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
  I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

  Jeff Buckley

  Goodbye, Kissing, Hug

  Song: Last Goodbye

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