I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.”
Source: The paradox of history: Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and others
“It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.”
“It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.”
Source: On Education
“It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.”
Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world-together, at the same time-the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength.”
“It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them.”
“It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.”
Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer
“It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the mind, it can be put aside. One can become disidentified with the mind. To know "I am not the mind," is real purity because then you are only consciousness, awareness, a witnessing. To live twenty-four hours a day as a witness is the way of the sannyasin.”
“It is only through meditation that slowly slowly more consciousness is created within you, more light is created; more watchfulness, witnessing, happens. And that is the miracle of awareness: if you become aware of anger you become a master of anger. Then it is up to you whether to be angry or not. You are absolutely free to be this way or that way.”
“It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.”
Source: Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction
“It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.”
“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.”
“It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I'm an optimist. I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I'm there with you every step of the way until that day comes...”
“It is only through our positive thinking, where problems have been replaced by challenges, that we can act to create the forces which will lead us to the solutions.
(Article "Positive Thinking" 2015)”
“It is only through pilgrimage to plurality, that an ape ascends into humanity.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“It is only through popular consultation and exchange with the people about social and economic policies that we were going to define the strategic direction of Cuba in the next years. To reach prosperous and sustainable socialism, which is our aspiration, we discussed that with the entire population.”
“It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.”
“It is only through reckoning with the truth that we might seek to ameliorate the many inequalities of our world. For all the emphasis on -lived experience-, objective truth still matters. We should be wary of those who tell us otherwise in order to preserve the delicate scaffolding of their pseudo-reality.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.”
“It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.”
“It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.”
“It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.”
Source: Ancient Music in the Pines: In Zen Mind Suddenly Stops
“It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one level, from one thing, to another. We remain in a vicious circle. This only transfers energy from one point to another. It still leaves us oscillating between suffering and pleasure, each leading inevitably back to the other. Only living stillness, stillness without someone trying to be still, is capable of undoing the conditioning our biologoical, emotional and psychological nature has undergone. There is no controller, no selector, no personality making choices. In choiceless living the situation is given the freedom to unfold. You do not grasp one aspect over another for there is nobody to grasp. When you understand something and live it without being stuck to the formulation, what you have understood dissolves in your openness. In this silence change takes place of its own accord, the problem is resolved and duality ends. You are left in your glory where no one has understood and nothing has been understood.”
Source: I Am
“It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.”
“It is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.”
Source: The Orthodox Way
“It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible”
“It is only through the darkness, we desire the light.”
“It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.”
“It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.”
“It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.”
“It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.”
“It is only through the possession of an ever-illuminating library that we can come to recognize and understand the horror and wonder of the human family's Odyssey and its quest for wholeness, freedom, salvation, love, and dominion over fire, flood, suffering, and every disease and death—from the river Styx to space. Without reading as an essential resource for survival in our everyday experience, the individual . . . swings in the orchard of time, an empty-headed scarecrow—gleeful in his wilderness.”
Source: Relocations of the Spirit: Collected Essays
“It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.”
“It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.”
“It is only through timidity that states are lost.”
“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.”
“It is only through work that you can effectively maximize the wealth of time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is only through work that you will discover that there is a seed of greatness in you.”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is only through work that you will discover that you are not ordinary.”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is only through work that you will know that you are greater than what you see”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.”
Source: The Secret of the Ages: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.”
“It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.”
“It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.”
Source: Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols
“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”
Source: Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance
“It is only to the individual that a soul is given.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.”
Source: Vestal Fire
“It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.”
Source: In Maremma: A Story