Patterns Quotes - Page 36

• Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern

  Bankei Yotaku

  Perspective, Pulse, Unborn

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• Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Squirrels, Perspective, Bird

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• When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Pride, Two

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• Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are, the more they block the creative energy. Most people hope that by ignoring negativity, it will go away, but the reverse is actually true. Through recognizing, acknowledging, and experiencing it, the blocked energy can be released. You are then free to replace it with positive beliefs and attitudes.

  Shakti Gawain

  Art, Attitude, Block

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Art, Imagination, Firsts

  William Walker Atkinson (2016). “The Secret Of Success”, p.30, William Walker Atkinson

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• The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

  Adam Fletcher

  United States, Discrimination, Founding

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• I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

  Richard Chamberlain

  Unique, Two, Carbon Footprint

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Wise, Healing, Ideas

  D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.48, Fearless Books

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• On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.

  Dalai Lama

  Truth, Nice, Animal

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• [Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.

  Lionel Tiger

  Inspirational, Past, Years

  Lionel Tiger (2017). “The Pursuit of Pleasure”, p.33, Routledge

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• What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

  Timothy Leary

  Wish, Psychedelic, Reflexes

  Timothy Leary (2004). “Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: A Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation”, p.118, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Work, Men

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

  Maya Lin

  Resistance, Flight, Wave

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• If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Deterioration, Use

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• The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Attitude, Men, Substance

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.171, University of Chicago Press

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• The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

  Russell Kirk

  Communication, Character, Men

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• Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading...Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse what’s going on with you and God behind closed doors.

  Vicky Beeching

  Doors, Leading On, Worship

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• Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

  Sholem Asch

  Resilience, Flesh, Youth

  Sholem Asch (1946). “East River”

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• I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, People, Instruments

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• When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.

  Ernest Holmes

  Mean, Perfect, Creative

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “Creative Mind and Success”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

  Dan Millman

  Strong, Old Habits, Mind

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.69, New World Library

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• Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

  Ed Ayres

  Courage, Fall, Acceptance

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• In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Religious, Philosophy, Thinking

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• The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Destiny, Two, Astrology

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