Enlightening Quotes - Page 13

• Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Needs, Genius

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening.

  Jennifer Skiff

  Dog, Stars, Heart

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• And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.

  Pete Dexter

  Book, Mind, Guilty

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• If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

  Bernie Siegel

  Encouragement, Nature, Adversity

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• I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

  Andrew McMahon

  Life, Beautiful, Carpe Diem

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• Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

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• He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

  Laozi

  Reality, Generosity, Giving

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• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Winning

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955), c. 6th - 5th century BC.

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• We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teacher, Children, Angel

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• I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

  Greg LeMond

  Inspirational, Struggle, Cycling

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• Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Sick, Judging

  Lysander Spooner (1882). “Natural Law, Or, The Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society : Showing that All Legislation Whatsoever is an Absurdity, a Usurpation, and a Crime”

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• Be the apostle of the divine Eucharist, like a flame which enlightens and warms, like the Angel of his heart who will go to proclaim him to those who don't know him and will encourage those who love him and are suffering.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Heart, Angel

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• Defeat serves to enlighten us.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Defeat

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• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, People, Too Much

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.109, Chinese University Press

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• It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.

  Kathryn Lindskoog

  Jobs, Philosophy, Helping Others

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• It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

  Jon J Muth

  Wisdom, Believe, Ocean

  Jon J Muth, Jon J. Muth (2015). “Zen Ties”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

  John Cassian

  Spiritual, Heart, Humility

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• It's my duty to enlighten people.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Duty

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• That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

  Ornette Coleman

  Book, Writing, People

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They want us to return to Their presence. Because of Their love for us, They have given us resources to obtain comfort, direction, and strength for our journey home. I speak of prayer, the wonderful and sublime ability to communicate and share our concerns with the Father; the Holy Spirit, which will enlighten and comfort us; and the words of the prophets, both ancient and modern. These resources give us understanding and direction in dealing with our challenges.

  Dean M. Davies

  Prayer, Father, Home

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• Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?

  Peter McWilliams

  May, Want, Taste

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Brother, Selfish

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.50, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

  Timothy Freke

  Wisdom, Yoga, Love Is

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• There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.

  Edward Humes

  Two, Theory Of Evolution, Radio

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• Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the power of the spirit when all seems lost. It proves, over and over again, the truth of Tennyson's words: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Prayer puts us on God's side. It aligns us with life's higher purposes, aims, and ideals. Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, Prayer, Healing

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