I Quotes
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“In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.”
“In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.”
“In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“In youth, there can be a feeling that time moves too slowly. But, as we age, the acceptance that our time is limited prompts the wise to cherish each and every moment.”
“In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.”
“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
“In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
“In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.”
Source: Devices and Desires
“In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.”
“In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.”
“In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.”
“In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.”
“In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.”
“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851
“In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.”
“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”
Source: A vindication of providence: or, A true estimate of human life, discourse i
“In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.”
“In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were actually standing in the way of a ceasefire which would save more lives. The idea was that, by giving amnesty to these ruthless warmongers, you would give them an incentive to stop killing. I found that incredibly naive, never mind cynical. Having been on the ground and having met with these ruthless killers, I knew the only thing they understood was the language of force.”
“In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.”
“In Yuri's early years of activism, [Mae] Mallory served as an important political mentor. Not only did Mallory have a visible leadership role, usually reserved for men, she also, remarked Yuri, 'taught me how to be a good Movement person. She was always on time, responsible & reliable, accurate in giving out information, and she wanted other people to be the same.”
Source: Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama
“In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.”
“In zazen we practice the oneness of reality.”
Source: Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
“In zazen, you create the conditions for your mind to “decompress” from its habitual mode of thinking and open up to new perspectives and insight.”
“In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.”
Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982
“In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.”
“In Zen an altered state of consciousness is no more than an ancillary phenomenon, never to be sought after for its own sake. When altered states and the expansion of consciousness are emphasized, as occurred in America and Europe, Zen falls into the proximity of drugs—an association not heard of in Japan.”
Source: Zen Enlightenment: Origins And Meaning
“In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.”
“In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.”
“In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind.”
“In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.”
Source: Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition
“In Zen Buddhist texts they say, “You cannot nail a peg into the sky.” And so, to be a man of the sky, a man of the void, is also called ‘a man not depending on anything’. And when you’re not hung on anything you are the only thing that isn’t hung on anything – which is the universe. Which doesn’t hang, you see. Where would it hang? It has no place to fall on, even though it may be dropping; there will never be the crash of it landing on a concrete floor somewhere. But the reason for that is that it won’t crash below because it doesn’t hang above. And so there is a poem, in Chinese, which speaks of such a person as having above, not a tile to cover the head; below, not an inch of ground on which to stand.”
Source: Out of Your Mind
“In Zen, resolving the great matter of life and death requires facing up to mortality. In order to truly live, we have to come to terms with the termination of life as we know it.”
Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
“In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.”
“In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.”
“In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us.”
Source: The Art of Being: 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life
“In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.”
“In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.”
“In Zen we have no gurus.”
“In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.”
“In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.”
“In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.”
“In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.”
“In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.”
“In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.”
“In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.”
“In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.”
Source: What is Zen?