Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 164

Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.

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“Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.”

“when god decided to invent everything he took one breath bigger than a circustent and everything began”

“This passion for form is a way of trying to find and constitute meaning in life. And this is what genuine creativity is.”

— Rollo May

“Opinion leads us by the ears, the eyes, — and, I had almost said, by the nose. It warps our understandings, confounds our judgments, dissipates experience and turns our passions…”

— Laurence Sterne

“We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted…”

— Laurence Sterne

“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.”

— Laurence Sterne

“I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That’s a different thing.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I like to play. I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.”

— Ray Bradbury

“You must never receive a gift, ever, without returning the gift twice over.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Faith is the most centered act of the human mind.”

— Paul Tillich

“How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least…”

— John Galsworthy

“Why is there a reluctance to be the face of the solution? Because if you are going to be the face of the solution, it likely means you had a hand in the problem.”

— William H. McRaven

“Own your lapses in judgment. It happens to everyone. Correct the problem and return to being a person of good character.”

— William H. McRaven

“Leadership requires energy. It requires stamina. It requires resilience. It requires everything you have and then some.”

— William H. McRaven

“There is one thing that appreciably eases the strain for the plays that arrive at this time of year, and that is that practically nothing is expected of them.”

— Dorothy Parker

“The play holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinée. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.”

— Dorothy Parker

“This use of soldiers to make a play popular seems too much like taking an unfair advantage of the uniform—hitting below the Sam Browne belt, as it were.”

— Dorothy Parker

“The palace is like a mighty river: its middle is goring bulls; what flows in is never enough to fill it, and what flows out can never be stopped.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“Heaven is far, earth is most precious, but it is with heaven that you multiply your goods, and all foreign lands breathe under it.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“The warrior is unique, he alone is the equal of many; Utu is unique, he alone is the equal of many.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“So hopeless is the world without; The world within I doubly prize; Thy world, where guile, and hate, and doubt, And cold suspicion never rise; Where thou, and I, and Liberty, Have…”

— Emily Brontë

“Bad men and poisonous plants are sometimes of superlative use in skilful hands.”

— Horace Walpole

“To talk of the weather was once a matter of ridicule. But that soon went out; for the weather is, in fact, so important in this changeable climate, that our health and bread…”

— Horace Walpole

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