A Quotes
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“All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.”
“All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.”
“All the suffering that is in the world arises from wishing ourselves to be happy. All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy. That's this old Buddhist dude's way of saying you should always think about other people.”
Source: The Late Bloomers' Club
“All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.”
“All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.”
“All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'”
“All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.”
“all the suns within you
want to shine”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.”
“All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All the support from all my friends, All my family over the years, I appreciate it.”
“All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.”
Source: The illustrated Odyssey
“All the suspects have been arrested. police are looking for them”
“All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.”
“All the sweet sounds of night fell on her ears, the grey slopes shimmered in the faint moonlight . . . The scene, the sounds, were all familiar to her, but unconsciously they awoke in her that satisfying delight, for which she had no words, and which only those who have lived alone with nature can understand.”
Source: A Welsh Witch
“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have always called forth in me the same kind of uneasiness one has when face to face with the regulations displayed under the glaring lights of a prison cell. Even if one had been born in prison and had never seen the stars or seas or woods, one would instinctively know of timeless freedom in unlimited space.
My evil star, however, had fated me to be born in times when only the sharply demarcated and precisely calculable where in fashion.... "Of course, I am on the Right, on the Left, in the Centre; I descend from the monkey; I believe only what I see; the universe is going to explode at this or that speed" - we hear such remarks after the first words we exchange, from people whom we would not have expected to introduce themselves as idiots. If one is unfortunate enough to meet them again in five years, everything is different except their authoritative and mostly brutal assuredness. Now they wear a different badge in their buttonhole; and the universe now shrinks at such a speed that your hair stands on end.”
Source: The Glass Bees
“All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.”
“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: The Most Complete Edition Ever Published
“All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled.”
Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
“All the talk in the world won't undo what we are. They put us in a corner we could never get out of on our own, and they're not in a rush to pull us out.”
“All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.”
“All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.”
“All the tears in the world can't bring back the dead or wash away your fears and grief. I want you to put up your chin and tell yourself you are strong. And if you begin to weaken, hold on to me. That's what I am here for.”
Source: Silver Storm
“All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.”
“All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....”
Source: The Rumi Collection
“All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.”
“All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.”
Source: Lotte Jacobi
“All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.”
“All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.”
“All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.”
Source: Following the Equator:
“All the terrorism in the world that fester in the name of religion, are in fact not religious in nature, rather they are socio-political. Their roots are not religion, but socio-political condition. Religion is only used as a divine tool of authoritative justification in the search of absolution.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the need for a (powerless) scapegoat, including the theme of expansionism.”
“All the theories mess you up inside.”
“All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.”
“All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.”
“All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.”
“All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!”
Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“All the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity.”
Source: No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
“All the things I love is what my business is all about.”
“All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.”
“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
“All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.”
“All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.”
“All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.”
“All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.”
“All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media.”
“All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.”
“All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.”