Enlightening Quotes

• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Dark, Dwelling

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• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Funny, Education, Teaching

  "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.

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• The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Attitude, Jewels, Soul

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspiring, Education, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, World, Censorship

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• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Fall, Memorable

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• Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

  John Dryden

  Love, Wise, Mind

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145

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• Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

  Michael Eisner

  Life, Failure, Experience

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• And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.

  Andrew McMahon

  Sick, Would Be, Earth

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• If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

  Andrew McMahon

  Sports, Beer, Drink

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• ...You know what I mean?

  Andrew McMahon

  Mean, Knows

  Song: When It Goes Down

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• A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

  Bruce Davison

  Interesting, Actors, Truthful

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I don't care what your politics are, but I do suggest you pay attention to the next election and go out and vote. It doesn't matter; you can believe whatever you want to believe, but this is the time everybody should be paying a lot of attention.

  Andrew McMahon

  Believe, Attention, Care

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• Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot down to hell, half sick, half recovered, alive and well and ready. The unknown for now will remain as such and in this moment that feeling is not one of suspension. It is the hopeful unknown. Reaching into the future could only be good now as the past is wrapping itself in ribbons and pleasant packing paper, rarely to be revisited.

  Andrew McMahon

  Stars, Quilts, Past

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• But planes land and so do I, and suns rise, melting away the grounds cool protection. I am finally free, if only for this moment. And should that be the case, then know that I am throwing a parade in first class as I speak. Art has again saved my life, my love and me. What next? Who really cares? Certainly a toast will be in order. Make mine a double.

  Andrew McMahon

  Art, Order, Land

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• You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

  Andrew McMahon

  Curves, Balls, Way

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• Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, I Hate You

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1996). “The Perfect Way”, p.229, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• No matter how solid or structured or set you think you are, there is, you know, a very thin line keeping us all from sort of chaos, in some perspective. And you know, I don't view that really as a negative thing at all, but it just is the truth.

  Andrew McMahon

  Thinking, Views, Perspective

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• If I've learned anything over the past 5 years, it's that you do not know where you're going to be tomorrow. You have to make decisions based on that; it's almost pointless. So, you know, whether I learned, I think I'm pretty aware, pretty conscious of that point to live in the moment. It's a hard lesson, but it's like, I'm trying to learn to quiet my mind down, know what I mean?

  Andrew McMahon

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable

  Andrew McMahon

  Blessing, Past, Eight

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• The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Media, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.324, Cambridge University Press

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• This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

  Andrew McMahon

  Beautiful, World, Damn

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• People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

  Andrew McMahon

  Men, People, Energy

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