Conditions Quotes - Page 38

• Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.

  Gerald Carson

  Nature, Loneliness, Humility

  Gerald Carson (1972). “Men, beasts, and gods: a history of cruelty and kindness to animals”

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• Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Fall, Blow

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• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  Major Taylor

  Confidence, Sports, Champion

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2034, Manonmani Publishers

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• When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

  Tony Robbins

  Appreciation, Expectations, Self Improvement

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• I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.

  August Wilson

  Believe, Reality, Theatre

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• To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

  Ernest Renan

  Past, People, Wish

  "The poetry of the Celtic races: and other studies".

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• In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

  Henry Wotton

  Art, Three, Delight

  'Elements of Architecture' (1624) pt. 1

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• For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "Romances of Alexandre Dumas: D'Artagnan Ed".

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• Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

  Socrates

  Pain, Desire, Coward

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• A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.

  Randy Wayne White

  Notebook, Memories, Simple

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• You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and compulsory rules.

  Clarence Francis

  Peace, Heart, Men

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• Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Atman, Changed

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

  Billy Graham

  Change, Fashion, Men

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• Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Opportunity, Succeed

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with "internationalism" though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions, fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the "rubbing out" of national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the free movement of peoples, the other of money.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Dream, Money, Communication

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• There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Religious, Luxury, People

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• Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.

  Samuel Gompers

  Cutting, Long, Safety

  Samuel Gompers, William Green (1921). “The American Federationist”

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• The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce.

  Wayne Dyer

  Creativity, Creating, Wish

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Opportunity, Innovation, Mind

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• So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

  Gunter Grass

  Risk, Complaining, Development

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• You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Income, Banking, Expenses

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• Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, People, Insanity

  "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Meaningful, Cancer, Waiting Rooms

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.4, Grove Press

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• I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

  Bernard Berenson

  Age, Desire, Excess

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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