J Quotes
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“Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running, I could see myself from outside myself: a skinny girl with the flapping shorts and too- big a T-shirt, always watching the other girls at school, a girl in a pink bedroom sitting with a book propped on her knees, the words she was reading entering her mind, some sticking like gluey never to be forgotten, others disappearing instantly, I could remember everything and remember nothing. I would watch a movie and recall every scene as if I had written the script, then watch another movie another day and be unable to recall it at all.”
Source: Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.”
“Just as soon as I get this cast off," Fletcher said, "I'm going to kick your ass."
"You shouldn't speak to Dr Renwick like that, after all he's done for you," said Nat, with a grin.
"Why not?" asked Fletcher. "He filled me up with your blood, so now I'm half the man I was."
"Wrong again," said Nat. "You're twice the man you were, but still half the man I am.”
Source: Sons of Fortune
“Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
“Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.”
“Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
“Just as spring brings life to flowers and the moon moves tides on the shores, nothing is simply chance. Everything happens for a reason. Everything is a routine.”
Source: 0.1%: Join The Club of The Richest, Healthiest, Happiest
“Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.”
Source: Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face
“Just as steel bars strengthen tall buildings, continuous learning and consistent reading habits give you the strength to stand out among the crowd.”
Source: Quotations for Effective Leadership
“Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...”
“Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.”
“Just as suffering is impermanent, pleasure is subject to the same Universal law. Ergo, in a way, happiness can never be permanently experienced. Though when one fully embodies this truth, one can remain happy regardless.”
“Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman's net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms continuous connection to make the whole -which works perfectly; know that in the broader picture of life, all things are connected, including you. Even when you feel otherwise disconnected from another - the whole always works perfectly.”
Source: Blight in the Ocean
“Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.”
“Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.”
“Just as surely as you can create a thought in your mind, you can create this day in the way you choose.”
“Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer rain as it washes away the motionless dust can bring to a person's soul something like endless breathing.”
“Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with their fellow men as well as the reality around them; for together with these contacts, men lose the capacity of both experience and thought. The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
Source: Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
“Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.”
“Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.”
“Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.”
“Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.”
“Just as the act of love should never be rushed – except between floors in an elevator, or with a stranger on a train – you should undress a woman with the same slow devotion she has shown in getting dressed.”
Source: The Secret Life of Girls
“Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.”
“Just as the animal is more noble than the vegetable and mineral so man is superior to the animal. The animal is bereft of ideality; that is to say, it is a captive of the world of nature and not in touch with that which lies within and beyond nature; it is without spiritual susceptibilities, deprived of the attractions of consciousness, unconscious of the world of God and incapable of deviating from the law of nature. It is different with man. Man is possessed of the emanations of consciousness; he has perception, ideality and capable of discovering the mysteries of the universe.”
Source: The Promulgation of Universal Peace, Vol. 1
“Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.”
Source: Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)
“Just as the archetype of the supermom--the woman who can do it all--minimizes the real needs of women, so too the archetype of the"superkid" minimizes the real needs of children. It makes it all right to treat a young child as if he or she were older.”
“Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.”
Source: The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend
“Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.”
“Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first to discover the horrors of war.”
Source: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First
“Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.”
“Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”
“Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.”
“Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.”
“Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.”
“Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.”
“Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Just as the body needs air, food, and water, the spirit needs energy. Life force is a tangible energy that runs through the central vertical current of your spirit body and it can be seen in a shamanic state as a bluish-white hue.”
“Just as the body needs rest to recuperate from expended energy, you must spend time apart to chase your goals and find your purpose to rekindle the relationship.”
“Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.”
“Just as the broken, abused child clung to hope for a better life against all odds, I now stand firm in hope and determination that one day justice will prevail.”
Source: Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
“Just as the Buddha taught, it’s important to see suffering as suffering. We are not talking about ignoring or keeping quiet. When we don’t buy into our opinions and solidify the sense of enemy, we will accomplish something. If we don’t get swept away by our outrage, then we will see the cause of suffering more clearly. That is how the cessation of suffering evolves.”
Source: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.”
“Just as the capacity for experiencing fatigue has evolved to protect us from overexertion, the capacity for sadness may have evolved to prevent additional losses. Maladaptive extremes of anxiety, sadness, and other emotions make more sense when we understand their evolutionary origins and normal, adaptive functions.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Just as the chakra petals can be seen as vessels for spiritual energy, the DNA strands serve as channels for genetic information.”
Source: The Secrets of 114 Chakras
“Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.”
“Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.”