J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just as death allows life to continue, grieving clears the way for renewal and rebirth.”
“Just as demagogues lead their well-intentioned followers into tragedy, so the jungle inevitable reclaims it's own.”
“Just as demagogues lead their well-intentioned followers into tragedy, so the jungle inevitably reclaims it's own.”
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
“Just as different games are available on android, different realities are available in the universe.”
“Just as DNA holds the blueprint for life, each of the 114 chakras carries the blueprint for the evolution of an individual’s physical, psychological, energetic, and spiritual being.”
Source: The Secrets of 114 Chakras
“Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.”
“Just as dogs were thwarted wolves, parks were thwarted forests. Humans loved both, possibly because humans were, well, thwarted.”
Source: The Humans
“Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!”
“Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples.
Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.”
Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.”
“Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)
“Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise.”
Source: Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
“Just as each person has certain idiosyncracies in the way he or she walks, people have idiosyncracies in the way they think and feel and see things, and though you might want to correct them, it doesn’t happen overnight, and if you try to force the issue in one case, something else might go funny. He gave me a very simplified explanation, of course, and it’s just one small part of the problems we have, but I think I understand what he was trying to say. It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause, we come here to get away from such things. As long as we are here, we can get by without hurting others or being hurt by them because we know that we are “deformed.” That’s what distinguishes us from the outside world: most people go about their lives there unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition. Just as Indians wear feathers on their heads to show which tribes they belong to, we wear our deformities in the open. And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators.”
Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra
“Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, society needs cultural diversity to grow new possibilities. Monoculture deadens our collective potential. (Favianna Rodriguez, Harnessing Cultural Power)”
Source: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
“Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.”
“Just as electricity is unseen, but by the flip of the switch, lights turn on, so also by the words spoken in prayer, miracles manifest.”
“Just as electrons become excited and shift to a higher energy level when they absorb energies like light, heat, or electricity, music instantly elevates a person to a higher energy level! And just as electrons don't remain at that high energy level forever, so too does a person return to their previous energy level when the music ends; energy is absorbed and given back, and the disrupted balance is restored.”
“Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.”
“Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.”
“Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.”
Source: Women, Work, and the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility
“Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.”
“Just as every crop performs on its specific type of soil, and not all fishes can grow in every kind of water, so is leadership. You can’t lead where you can’t thrive; you can lead where you can survive!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“Just as every day has its sunrise and sunset, life has its moments of success and failure.”
“Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.”
“Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.”
“Just as every Hollywood picture is "put together" by producers, who are always in tight control of the enterprise and reap the lion's share of the profits, so is the Outlaw Industry managed by lawyers.”
Source: Neuropolitique
“Just as every purchase comes with a bill, every choice comes with its own consequences.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.”
Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein
“Just as evil communication and company corrupts good manners, good communication and company can correct bad manners”
“Just as evil never dies, neither does the sentimental.”
Source: Star
“Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.”
“Just as extreme love, in a marriage, for example, can turn to hate. They're the same coin, just different sides.”
Source: Mrs Queen Takes the Train
“Just as fertile soil nurtures a tree’s deep roots, a supportive environment anchors self motivation, helping us set and sustain the right pace for self creation. The right environment strengthens both self motivation and self creation.”
“Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.”
“Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.”
“Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure”
“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.”
“Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.”
“Just as from dust is evolved the man, from the deeds which he does is evolved the higher man.”
“Just as full sunlight completely dispels all darkness but even a few rays provide a measure of light, so, if we complete the practice of training the mind, we will totally dispel the darkness of our ignorance, but if we engage in only some parts of the practice, this will still help to reduce our ignorance and self-cherishing .”
“Just as genotype defines the potential of an organism, chakras define the potential of the spirit—when balanced, they manifest as the highest expression of our physical, emotional, and spiritual selves.”
Source: The Secrets of 114 Chakras
“Just as Geppetto persisted in his false wish to make his created toy into a real boy, even so you must persist with Pinocchio’s nose and courage in the belly of the fish, until the fairy of the universe waves her wand, enchants your dreams and gives genuine life to your every wish.”
Source: Guru In The Glass: A Mysterious Encounter While Dying To Live The Unlived Life
“Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others”
“Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men.”
“Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.”