B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.”
Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom
“By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.”
“by travelling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.”
Source: The Man in Seat 11B
“By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.”
Source: Happiness
“By trying for others, people try for themselves.”
“By trying Hutchinson and carefully recording and saving her extensive testimony, the judges inadvertently gave her what few women of her time enjoyed: a lasting voice.”
Source: American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
“By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or the landscapes or the people you photograph - and this is where photography really interests me.”
“By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.”
“By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?”
Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.”
“By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.”
“By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could be better than life, that they could redeem life. In fact, I believe they are, and do. My life is dedicated to that belief. But still, I asked too much of them: I asked them also to be both safer than life and fuller, a better family. That they couldn't give. At the depths I'd plumb them, so many perfectly sufficient works of art would become thin, anemic. I sucked the juice out of what I loved until I found myself in a desert, sucking rocks for water.”
Source: The Disappointment Artist
“By trying to give an artistic approach through my book I stepped unwillingly into other fields. Like a dentist being asked about a throat ache on a much more relevant scale, I was caught in trying to explain what was unexplainable for me. In the end, trying to explain why it was unexplainable finally led to a huge general insecurity in dealing with the subject at all.”
“By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“By trying to live Christmas 12 months a year, we CAN make this world a better place to live - for others and for ourselves.”
“By trying to make everything better, I repeatedly managed to only make things worse.”
Source: Royals
“By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.”
“By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream”
Source: Early Writings
“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”
“By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love than you would ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life.”
“By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.”
“By turning his gaze upwards, (he) also turned it inwards, towards his inner silence and uncovered forgotten sides. Into that universe which to me is just as mysterious as the outer space that surrounds us. One universe stretches outwards, the other inwards. To me the latter universe is of the greatest interest. For, as the poet Emily Dickinson rightly concluded, “The Brain—is wider than the Sky.”
“By turning houses into property, they have failed to fulfil their function as homes: whether it's in the aftermath of the financial crisis in the US, evicting families to protect the profits of banks, or the selling off of council houses in the UK. in short, housing has become just another way for the richest inn society to get even richer.”
Source: Split: Class Divides Uncovered
“By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.”
“By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's (Myanmar's) remaining tigers and establish the Hukawng Valley Reserve. It is hard to imagine a more passionate or exciting account of today's conservation challenges, or a more thoughtful rendering of life, death, and politics in Burma's most remote corners.”
“By turns the nine delight to sing”
“By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time.”
“By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.”
“By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume
“By uncovering your principles and putting them into practice, you may become a more congruent person whose values and behaviors are in sync. This may boost your confidence and reduce your stress or inner turmoil, and you may even garner more trust or resources from those who value integrity.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.”
Source: The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms
“By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.”
Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
“By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.”
“By understanding our ghosts, we may better understand ourselves, both past and present, and how female-identifying individuals are represented in the (margins of) historical record.”
Source: A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
“By understanding the meaning of common dreams, you can identify issues that want your attention in your waking life.”
“By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“By understanding the value system the world preferred, remembering and feigning it, I was able to convince others that I was free of problems. I simply had to participate enthusiastically in the boring conversations my classmates were having.”
Source: Goth
“By understanding the various dimensions of power and embracing its potential, you can make it the driving force behind your ambitions. Harness the magnetic nature of power, feed your ambition, and develop your skills in manipulation to shape the life you desire. Always remember, however, that power comes at a price – be prepared to face the consequences of your actions as you ascend to the throne of your dreams.”
Source: Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual
“By understanding your greatest fear, you'll see your greatest love.”
“By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.”
“By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.”
Source: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
“By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.”
“By uniting the thirst of our mind with the pureness and wellness of the air we are breathing, we can take possession of the most profound fibers in our being, imbibe its hidden primal forces, and transcend all irrelevant trivialities. ("My radio")”
“By uniting your mind with nature, you will experience the inner transformation that renders your thoughts radiant and your heart benevolent, surrounding you with an aura of purest golden light. When others bathe in it, they will be transformed as well.”
Source: The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
“By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.”
“By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.”
“By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.”
Source: Lectures, addresses
“By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas - I am the Abode of Brahman, Eternal and Immutable, of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss.”
“By using affirmations and by surrounding ourselves with people who are positive and will support us in holding thoughts about what we want to experience (and not what we don't) we'll naturally start to shift our experience”