J Quotes
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“Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.”
“Just as a sense of wrongdoing had been integral to his [de Sade's] sexual pleasure—he preferred the anal position for moral as much as sensual reasons—the pleasure he took in immoralism was almost physical.”
Source: De Sade: A Critical Biography
“Just as a singer shows the melody of their voice and a dancer demonstrates the grace of their body, a mentalist expresses the beauty of the mind.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.”
Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, so too do we relinquish actions, words, and views that compose our current life of misery and longing so we can be reborn as a Bodhisattva Hero, a child of the Buddhas. Are you ready to let go? (p. 97)”
Source: Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
“Just as a snowflake
went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the
pumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,
and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, my
father’s ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.”
Source: Misfits of Love: Healing Conversations in the Barnyard
“Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.”
“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”
“Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.”
Source: The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...
“Just as a star can’t be seen behind a cloud, you can never shine and be seen behind the clouding of your insecurities.”
“Just as a stone that is dropped anywhere in a lake creates ripples that reach across the entire body of water, when one of us is suffering, that pain ripples through all of existence. As Rumi said, “The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks slightly different on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different on this other one but it is still one light.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
“Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.”
“just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art”
Source: Taekwondo: A Path to Excellence
“Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.”
Source: The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
“Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.”
“Just as a tree cannot give the fruits that it does not bear, neither can it ever lose its roots because its fruits have been harvested.”
Source: The Alchemy of Time
“Just as a tree grows branches, reaching out here and there before it gains its ultimate height, man's mistakes serve as the branches of his own growth, offering footholds for climbing higher.”
“Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.”
Source: Malcolm X on Afro-American History
“Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again”
“Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.”
“Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.”
“Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns of animals that he hunts, in order for us to heal, to achieve and maintain a state of mental and physical health,we must be in touch with our body and be aware of the symptoms of illness. Our ability to heal, and the healing process itself, should never be taken for granted. Vanity often keeps us from accepting that we’ll all inevitably face cycles of being weaker and stronger,sicker and healthier.”
Source: The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse for High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body
“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”
“Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.”
“Just as a wave is one with the ocean, you are one with the Universe.”
Source: One Wave
“Just as a wave is one with the ocean, you are one with the Universe. Like a wave in the ocean, you travel in your own unique form, on your own unique path. Like a wave, you are changed by things around you. Like a wave, you can change things around you in good ways or in bad ways. You can choose a path to love, heaven, joy.”
Source: One Wave
“Just as a well-aimed telescope can clarify that what appears to be empty space is actually filled with heavenly glory, science has the power to uncover bits and pieces of the workmanship of God. Science enlightens the heats of those who love its creator.”
Source: If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”
“Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.”
“Just as a woman's eyes are the mirrors of her soul, her shapely bottom is her seat of learning.”
“Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man.”
“Just as air sustains life, a Father’s love silently anchors us, giving strength to our roots and lifting us towards the skies.”
Source: Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I
“Just as all mothers are deeply affected when they perceive that the countenance of their children reflects a peculiar likeness to their own, so also our Most Sweet Mother wishes for nothing more, never rejoices more than when she sees those whom, under the cross of her Son, she has adopted as children in His stead, portray the lineaments and ornaments of her own soul in thought, word, and deed.”
Source: Fulgens Corona: On the Marian Year and the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception
“Just as all motion is from an unmovable cause, so everything divisible is from an indivisible cause. However, this visible, corporeal world is, assuredly, of a divisible nature, since what is corporeal is divisible. Therefore, this world is from an earlier, indivisible Cause.”
“Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.”
“Just as all roads once led to Rome, when your limerence for someone has crystallized, all events, associations, stimuli, experience return your thoughts to LO with unnerving consistency. At the moment of awakening after the night’s sleep, an image of LO springs into your consciousness. And you find yourself inclined to remain in bed pursuing that image and the fantasies that surround and grow out of it. Your daydreams persist throughout the day and are involuntary. Extreme effort of will to stop them produces only temporary surcease.”
Source: Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love
“Just as all the world loves a lover, it has been my experience that all the world loves a trailerite.”
“Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.”
“Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.”
“Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher-they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table.”
“Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it.”
“Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements, their changeful medley, their extinction and their flaming-up anew, so did Jacob Mendel, seated at his table in the Cafe Gluck, look through his spectacles into the universe of books, a universe that lies above the world of our everyday life, and, like the stellar universe, is full of changing cycles.”
Source: Selected Stories
“Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality our garden is filled with all sorts of interesting items--it was not, after all, a fallow place before we sought to investigate what might be there and what we could possibly put in it. Everyone's spiritual garden is different, because each individual is unique.”
Source: A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft
“Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in the case of people who go through hugely traumatic events or suffer from brain injury or disease. Some would argue that religious conversions can have deep personality-altering effects. But these are all exceptions to the rule.”
“Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.”
Source: The Lost World and Other Stories
“Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern life can accumulate to the point where our society finds itself bombing other people for their oil, or supporting dictators who torture whole populations - all so that our unbalanced interests might be served.”
“Just as an unlocked door is not an invitation for others to walk in, neither is it an obstacle to the kind of access a well motivated snooper needs to achieve their sinful ends.”
Source: Moments to Spare