A Quotes
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“All beings exist and nothing else
And that’s why they’re called beings”
Source: The Keeper of Sheep
“All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable.”
“All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.”
“All beings experience hunger, that persistent reminder of mortality. The blooming hollow inside all, which affirms that only by taking from without and devouring within can we extend our coil. Hunger is universal for those who are destined to die. As they feed, they pay the incremental bribes that forestall its coming.”
Source: Lucius: The Faultless Blade
“All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds
left silent by laying to rest all things.”
“All beings of the world are in a constant state of either coming into being or going out of being. Resignation of the soul is the final act in a one-character play. Given our genetic defect of mortality, it is impossible not to question the why and wherefore of our existence. It is understandable why each of us must ask what life is all about, and for that matter, constantly inquire what is next. Where does the headwater of our existence spring from and where will the divergent stream of life take us? Do the still waters that gently slide by compose the tranquil waters relished by lentic lakeside creatures? What lies ahead in the burbling headwaters of tomorrow? Does nourishing brain food wait for lotic inhabitants to feast upon in the turbulent rapids and airy froth of the future? Vagueness, doubt, and insecurity shroud the future. The only thing certain is that the effervescence culled from our dynamic immersion in the firth of today will expose our material composition.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss…
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under…”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.”
Source: The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes
“All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?”
“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”
Source: Lovingkindness
“All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.”
“All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.”
“All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.”
“All belief begins in the will to believe.”
Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting
“All belief is a cover-up for insecurity”
“All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.”
“All beliefs. All concepts. All thoughts. Yes, they’re all false; all bullshit. Of course they are. Not just religions and spiritual teachings, but all philosophies, all ideas, all opinions. If you’re going for the truth, you’re not taking any of them with you. Nothing that says two, not one, survives.”
Source: Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
“All beliefs and understanding about everything in this universe that you currently hold to be true, are false.”
“All beliefs are bald ideas.”
Source: I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
“All beliefs are equally valid.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.”
“All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.”
“All believers have been called into only one fellowship, which is that of Jesus Christ. Believers may mistakenly consider the group they associate with is one fellowship, and every other group has its own separate fellowship. The truth is, all believers belong to only one fellowship...Since all believers are in the one body of Christ, there should be no divisions in Christ.”
Source: One: Unfolding God’s Eternal Purpose from House to House
“All believers in Christ, the Scripture teaches, will suffer-all of us. You will be glorified, Paul says, if you suffer with him. The problem with too many of us is not that we don't suffer, but that we assume that only Third World Christians or heroic missionaries are suffering. My boys didn't know that they were suffering in Russia; they would feel it as suffering now.”
Source: Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches
“All believers need to become teachers, shepherds, ministers, and good-news-bearers.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.”
Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: A Volume of Discourses
“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“All Beyoncé and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful.”
Source: Bossypants
“All bibles are man-made.”
“All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.”
“All big changes of the world come from words.”
“All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.”
Source: The essential Gandhi: an anthology
“All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.”
“All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.”
“All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.”
Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration
“All biological and artificial mechanisms -no matter how well designed- are vulnerable to malfunctions, failures, and breakdowns. Even if developmental processes are canalized against perturbations, they can deviate from their target phenotype as random events and disturbances accumulate over time.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!”
“All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.”
“All birds of feather flock together,” said to himself Canada Goose … that carving figure Hun - a swallow in his chat room barn - was fun.”
Source: Carol of the Wings: Vintage Folk Patchwork Tale
“All birds will sing
regardless of their plume.
Only the blessed souls will listen
regardless of their comprehension.”
“All birth is unwilling.”
“All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“All bisexuality means is that someone COULD date anyone, not that they WILL. This stigma needs to end.”
“All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.”
“All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.”
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”
“All blessings are mixed blessings.”
“All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.”