J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just as when we step into a mosque and its high open dome leads our minds up, up, to greater things, so a great carpet seeks to do the same under the feet. Such a carpet directs us to the magnificence of the infinite, veiled, yet never near, closer than the pulse of jugular, the sunburst that explodes at the center of a carpet signals this boundless radiance. Flowers and trees evoke the pleasures of paradise, and there is always a spot at the center of the carpet that brings calm to the heart. A single white lotus flower floats in a turquoise pool, and in this tiniest of details, there it is: a call to the best within, summoning us to the joy of union. In carpets, I now saw not just intricacies of nature and color, not just mastery of space, but a sign of the infinite design. In each pattern lay the work of a weaver of the world, complete and whole; and in each knot of daily existence lay mine.”
Source: The Blood of Flowers
“Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.”
Source: The Teaching of Reverence for Life
“Just as wine ages in a barrel, the mind refines with time, absorbing ever more knowledge. Never aspire to be a young wine; never stop learning.”
“Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.”
“Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.”
“Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.”
“Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.”
“Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a book not even this one. Sure you can read about the different swimming strokes or the parts of a bicycle; you can learn the theory and physics behind the sport. But to get to the heart of the matter you've got to leap in and learn by doing.”
Source: How to Make Someone Fall in Love With You in 90 Minutes or Less
“Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.”
Source: Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children
“Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.”
“Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Just as women are sensitive to feeling rejected when they don't get the attention they need, men are sensitive to feeling that they have failed when a woman talks about problems. This is why it is so hard for him to listen sometimes. He wants to be her hero. When she is disappointed or unhappy over anything, he feels like a failure. Her unhappiness confirms his deepest fear: he is just not good enough. Many women today don't realize how vulnerable men are and how much they need love too. Love helps him to know that he is enough to fulfill others.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“Just as women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion while men have a small country road, men have a Chicago’s O’Hare Airport as a hub for processing thoughts about sex whereas women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes. That probably explains why eight-five percent of twenty to thirty year old males think about sex every fifty two seconds and women think about it once a day or up to every three or four seconds and woman think about it once a day or up to every three or four hours on their most fertile days. This makes for interesting interactions between the sexes”.”
Source: EL CEREBRO FEMENINO
“Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.”
“Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.”
“Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.”
“Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.”
“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”
“Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.”
“Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Just as writers rely on editors, they should be allowed to use AI tools to refine their books. If it is acceptable for a person to suggest better word, sentence, or even paragraph choices, then AI should also be allowed to contribute in similar ways. It can rephrase confusing sentences, recommend smoother vocabulary, or break up long passages to make the text easier to follow. For example, it might change “She quickly ran very fast to catch the bus” to “She ran to catch the bus.” The meaning remains the same, but the sentence becomes clearer and stronger.”
“Just as writers write the books they always wished they could read, Walt built the playground his inner child had always wanted to explore. Tom Sawyer Island was the tangible fulfillment of all his boyhood wishes.”
Source: Walt's Disneyland: It's Still There If You Know Where to Look
“Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement-the art of living.”
“Just as you are about to start construction the 1.3 billion dollar world’s largest telescope, a crazy person from the previous telescope project shows up with hundreds of pages of scientific reasons why the toxic project needs to be shut down by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).”
“Just as you are, come to Christ Jesus, He will change you, to what you ought to be.”
“Just as you are come to Jesus Christ.”
“Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.”
Source: Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day
“Just as you are what you think, you are also what you dream.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.”
Source: Kinflicks
“Just as you believe you may have already halfway there”
“Just as you can allow your outcomes to determine how you behave and react, you can also choose to reclaim your agency and apply it to your own circumstances. By exercising this unique right of selecting your own responses, you may turn from a victim to an agent who is more in control of your life.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Just as you can feel connected to your line of human mothers through your belly button, you can feel an ultimate connection to the Earth mother on whom all of our lives depend.”
Source: Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life
“Just as you can give in to your short-term desires and let these stimulants take over you, you can also choose to stop this enslavement by making these stimulants obsolete.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.”
“Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.”
“Just as you can’t stop air coming into your lungs, so you can’t stop thoughts coming into your mind. Your part is to resist them.”
Source: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
“Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.”
“Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Just as you commit to this life when it commits to leaving you.”
“Just as you could not have a smartphone serving up semantic content without a syntactic smartphone technology to enable it, you cannot have an empirical world without a syntactic framework to support it, which is provided by eternal and necessary mathematics.”
Source: Base Reality: Ultimate Existence
“Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.”
“Just as you drop body parts, those parts reassemble, and have done so continuously over the history of the earth. People decompose, become dirt, dirt becomes vegetables and fruit, animals and people eat the food that grows from the dirt that was once a body. It is all one big recycling program the earth does.”
Source: The Zombie Wizards of Ala-ka
“Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena”
“Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?”
“Just as you learn cooking, swimming or driving, you learn to be non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering. These are Life skills too. Over time, through repeated practice, you gain mastery over them. And that’s how you learn to be happy despite your circumstances.”
“Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature.”
“Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.”
Source: Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage
“Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.”
Source: The Tao of Wu
“Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.”
“Just as you must exercise your body to maintain a state of strength and health, you must exercise your mental fortitude to bolster your reserves of willpower.”