Rooted Quotes - Page 4

• If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Believe, Feelings, Evolve

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• the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

  Saul Williams

  Men, Anchors, Overboard

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Flower, Twilight, Simple

  Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Demon of the Flower”, p.5, eStar Books

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• As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Men, Age, May

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.105, John Wiley & Sons

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• When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Cooking, Alive

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• There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Pain, Parenting

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Creativity, Past

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• Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Spring, Garden

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Ordinary, Human Nature

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.

  James Madison

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”

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• No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

  Adrienne Rich

  Passion, Animal, Air

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Mistake, Jealous

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• The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.

  Richard Nelson

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Marriage, Passion

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Individual, Mass

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Collective Unconscious, Males, Domination

  "On male domination" by Pierre Bourdieu, mondediplo.com. October 1998.

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• Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty
  Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

  Russell Simmons

  Honesty, Self, Development

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• Bliss follows witnessing - and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate. Remain rooted in witnessing: "I am only a watcher." That is going to transform your whole life, it is going to give you the ultimate.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Meditation, Mind

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• A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Distance

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.253, Macmillan

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• When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

  Anais Nin

  Desire, Feels

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• If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again... to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. (from the poem "How Sure Gravity's Law")

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lonely, Children, Confused

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• The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

  Anne Rice

  World, Natural, Persons

  Anne Rice (2012). “The Wolf Gift”, p.398, Random House

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• Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate person nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of living and no way of dying.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Eye, Compassion

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• Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

  Brian Weiss

  Simplicity, Action, Tendencies

  Brian L. Weiss (2012). “Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Yo”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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