A Quotes
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“All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.”
“All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.”
“All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.”
“All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.”
Source: The Essential Galbraith
“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.”
Source: The Essential Galbraith
“All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“All such advances require only that we live by the principles we claim to espouse but have too long ignored...”
“All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.”
Source: The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered
“All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.”
“All sufferers can find comfort in the solidarity of the Crucified; but only those who struggle against evil by following the example of the Crucified will discover Him at their side. To claim the comfort of the Crucified while rejecting His way is to advocate not only cheap grace but a deceitful ideology. Within the overarching theme of self-donation the theme of solidarity must be fully affirmed, for it underlines rightly the partiality of divine compassion towards the ‘harassed and helpless’.”
Source: Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
“All suffering always has a cause. By learning the causes we can know how to end suffering. We can find peace of mind and save ourselves.”
“All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.”
“All suffering is a consequence of a constant quest. A quest to follow a mirage, the mirage that is the creation of our mind, the illusion of happiness, the illusion of being loved. That is what it is. Love itself is an illusion. We misuse the word so much we forget what it means. It means nothing, because it simply does not exist. It is the destiny of the mind to seek. When it does not discover what it seeks, it gives birth to hopelessness. And given our undying spirit, from that hopelessness rises hope itself. This hope takes us to the quest all over again, churning us in an endless cycle of suffering. This cycle is called life. Suffer you will, one way or the other...”
“All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.”
“All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.”
“All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation”
Source: The Lotus - Realization of Oneness
“All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".”
Source: Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
“All suffering is mind-made. Where is suffering in the world? In pain? No. In harsh words people say? How could sounds spoken cause suffering? Suffering only exists in our anticipation of events unfavorable to the mind due to desires not met, or regrets from the past that live as memories in our mind.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“All suffering is relative to experience, and life while it is
everything is also not much at all.”
Source: The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors
“All suffering is the price of life. All suffering must be in balance with all beauty. The pessimistic view is more an expression of the individual state of mind (outlook) than the external state of affairs (“objective reality”). According to Kant, the will is the universal legislator. Similarly, we can equate pure reason to the Supreme Being (essence) and practical reason to a plurality or multiplicity (the world, existence).”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”
“All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
“All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.”
“All summers take me back to the sea. There in the long eelgrass, like birds' eggs waiting to be hatched, my brothers and sister and I sit, grasses higher than our heads, arms and legs like thicker versions of the grass waving in the wind, looking up at the blue sky. My mother is gathering food for dinner: clams and mussels and the sharply salty greens that grow by the shore. It is warm enough to lie here in the little silty puddles like bathwater left in the tub after the plug has been pulled. It is the beginning of July and we have two months to live out the long, nurturing days, watching the geese and the saltwater swans and the tides as they are today, slipping out, out, out as the moon pulls the other three seasons far away wherever it takes things. Out past the planets, far away from Uranus and the edge of our solar system, into the brilliantly lit dark where the things we don't know about yet reside. Out past my childhood, out past the ghosts, out past the breakwater of the stars. Like the silvery lace curtains of my bedroom being drawn from my window, letting in light, so the moon gently pulls back the layers of the year, leaving the best part open and free. So summer comes to me.”
Source: My One Hundred Adventures
“All Superheroes are differently abled.
All differently abled are Superheroes.”
“All superheroes have origin stories, like how Bruce Wayne’s parents get killed and he goes to Tibet or whatever, and Superman is an alien, and Spiderman had that radioactive spider. Me? I kissed a janitor in the school bathroom”
“All supernatural horror depends on a confusion of what we believe should be and should not be. As scientists, philosophers, and spiritual figures have attested, our heads are full of illusions; things, including human things, are frequently not what they seem…No one can prove that our existence is a paradox and a horror. Everything is alright with the world.”
“All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.”
Source: Novum Organum
“All surfeit is the father of much fast.”
Source: Measure for Measure
“All surfers are joined by one ocean.”
“All surgery and no makeup make Jack a dull girl.”
“All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward.”
“All suspects should be given the chance to telephone their lawyers or their mothers, and it would not be surprising if they chose to call their mothers. After all, your mother is fall more likely to believe in your innocence than your lawyer.”
Source: The Department of Sensitive Crimes
“All sutras claim to be the teachings of the Buddha, yet they were all were written down much later. Even the earliest sutras, the ones that make up the Pali Canon of the Theravada Buddhist tradition, which has thrived in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, were first written down four centuries after the Buddha died. The sutras that form the scriptural basis of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, which has thrived in Central and East Asia, were composed starting in the first century bce, many being translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by the end of the second century of the Common Era. When these scriptures were brought from India to China, the different schools of Chinese Buddhism distinguished themselves from one another by claiming that one sutra or another is the pinnacle of the Buddha's teaching.
The Zen school, however, is different. While Zen Buddhists do study and chant many sutras and other texts, the Zen school is unique in that it does not claim to be based on any written teachings at all; rather, it is based on the Buddha's actual experience of enlightenment. This experience of enlightenment is aid to be attainable by all human beings, insofar as the Buddha-nature or Buddha-mind is universal. In other words, all human beings have the same underlying nature and mind as the Buddha. Yet this Buddha-nature or Buddha-mind must be realized, awakened to, and actualized, and the best method for doing so is the one that the Buddha himself used: meditation.”
Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
“All sweeping assertions are erroneous.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“ALL symbolism is encrypted...
That's why the masses don't know what they're looking at”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
Source: Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous
“All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.”
“All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.”
“All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.”
Source: Hey Nostradamus!
“All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.”
“All systems produce results which incentivize their continuation. Systems are living beings — by nature, they prioritize self preservation. That's why it's important to apply data and wisdom to the design of systems.”
“All systems require myths for their longevity.”
Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress”
“All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.”
“All talk about the path and the goal is as a lantern carried by a blind man. The blind man needs a staff in his hand, the seeker needs his hand in the God-Man's”
Source: Selected Messages of Meher Baba