Fall Quotes - Page 20

• The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

  Robert Musil

  Learning, Pockets, Crystals

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.535, Pan Macmillan

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• When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, Summer, Lying

  "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

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• The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Aggravation, Firsts, Return

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Flower, Dew, World

  Liza Lim, Izumi Shikibu (2000). “Burning house: for koto and voice (1 performer) (1995)”

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• We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.

  Ajahn Chah

  Giving Up, Rain, Teaching

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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Thinking, Air

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• To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

  James Joyce

  Triumph

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fate, Doe

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• After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us - one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase as the Mykines tribe dwindled away, a few falling down steps, most simply emigrating, until there would be, sad to say, only our peripatetic selves. We were the future of all places condemned by remoteness to a lingering, photogenic death.

  Lawrence Millman

  Islands, Self, Mind

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• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."

  Frederic Farrar

  Crush, Prayer, Two

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• From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Home, America, House

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• When you are falling --- Dive!

  Joseph Campbell

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• If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

  Evel Knievel

  Trying, Matter, Get Up

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• What you are looking for is within you Fall silent a moment and contemplate what that means... You lack nothing.

  Prem Rawat

  Mean, Moments, Silent

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• Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his burden is too great can lighten that burden by taking on the weight of another's burden. You get by giving, but your part of giving must be given first.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Men, Giving, Weight

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

  Mary Lou Williams

  Talent, Plans, Ifs

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• Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.

  Nelson Mandela

  Greatness, Humanity, Tasks

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

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• What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

  Jeremy Irons

  Opportunity, Risk, Trying

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

  Mike Tyson

  Hard Times, Hard

  Twitter post from Oct 9, 2012

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• If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

  Seth Godin

  Falling In Love, Creating Value, People

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• Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.

  Karen Scalf Linamen

  Love, Dream, Forever

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• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, America, Wind

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• Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Stupidity, Praying

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• Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

  Joan Lindsay

  Falling In Love, Art, Waiting Rooms

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• I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a #‎ controlfreak , it's hard.

  Naomi Campbell

  Letting Go, Cards, Hard

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