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“That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.”

People Knows Spiritual Willing Concepts Lists Lifestyle Spiritual Life Ethereal Fluffy Amends Making Amends

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.”

Way God Time Religious Concepts Preacher Grasping God Exists

Book:Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.”

Values Deals Products Concepts Sells Ads

Author:Brené Brown

“... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.”

World Important Matter Stars Consciousness Students Divine Concepts Flow Stones Cosmos Exception Sovereign Starfish

Author:Ki Longfellow

“I don't believe in the concept of a soul mate. Because we are all unique, but we're also simply too similar.”

Believe Soul Unique Concepts Don't Believe Mates Soul Mate

Book:This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.”

Different Used Lost Compassion Moral Environment Worst Humility Concepts Depth Ill Dimensions Worst Things Friendship Love

Author:Vaclav Havel

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”

Ifs Use Religious Concepts Validity

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation. It changes concepts to experience.... Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.”

Want Action Passion Creation Concepts Who You Are Deny Fuel Engines

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.”

People World Needs Feels Real Self Use Reality Seems Earth Term Lines Feet Concepts Definitions Breathe Intense Mysterious Real World Fascinated Evident Oxygen Real Food

Author:Tana French

“Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.”

People Mind Universe Felt Existence Creative Saws Greater Concepts Greater Power Creative Intelligence

Book:Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

“The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!”

Mind Humans Ideas Grows Opinion Concepts Plant Seeds Human Mind Fertile Fertile Ground

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.”

People Ifs Wells Two Different Belief Atheism Republican Concepts Atheist Certainty Addresses Agnostic Exclusive Agnosticism Atheistic God Exists

Book:Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

Source: Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

“Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.”

Needs Feels Writing Hard Seems Kids Stuff Realizing Safe Projects Smart Concepts Passionate Dishes Didactic Vapid Hard Words Smart Kid

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.”

“Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.”

People Would Be Eating Concepts Fishes Pity Remorse Sharks

Author:Kim Harrison

“My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.”

Pain Mother Left Memories Gone Concepts

Author:Tea Obreht

“They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.”

Thinking Concepts Loyalty Abandon Commanders

Book:Poison Study

Source: Poison Study

“On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.”

“The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?”

Persons Problem Order Fear Sin Christianity Cutting Atheism Offers Bible Concepts Sells Solve Rage Knives Being Thankful Bandages

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.”

Knows Mean Hard Facts Process Concepts Terrorist

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.”

People Inspirational Believe Moments Concepts Katie

Author:Byron Katie

“It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.”

Might Would Be Color Birth Understood Concepts Blind Mysterious Describing God's Presence

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”

Ifs Knows Mind Reality Birth Concepts Okay Birth And Death

Author:Nhat Hanh

“A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.”

Knows Whole Young Games Player Missing Concepts Teamwork Sportsmanship Missing Out

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.”

Men States Government Crime Concepts Profession Criminals Legislation Tribes Sects Criminology

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.”

People Men World Made Real Self Belief Mass Expectations Concepts Real World Stereotype Abstraction

Author:Abraham Maslow

“"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".”

Thinking Knows Forever Taken Concepts Rotation

Author:John Green

“Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.”

Existence Concepts Opposites

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”

Fiction Protect Concepts Isolation Isolated Cushions Anesthetics

Book:Conversations with Paul Bowles

Source: Conversations with Paul Bowles

“And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.”

Wisdom Levels Communication Speech Concepts Communion

Author:Thomas Merton

“Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.”

World Long Two Able Fate Teaching Youth Duty Mountain Concepts Rivers Mere Patterns Innocent Remembered Fearful

Author:Robert Jordan

“My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.”

Firsts Soul Language Planets Concepts Opposites Betrayal Loyalty Our Planet Traitor

Book:The Host

Source: The Host

“There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.”

People Way Humans Persons Mets Normal Concepts Being True One Way Supposed To Be Human Experience Flawed

Author:Maureen Johnson

“In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.”

World Long War Light Desire Causes Born This World Protect Concepts Shadow Hatred Selfish Winner Loser Selfish Desire

Author:Masashi Kishimoto

“There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.”

People Pain Waiting Concepts Gains Aliens Telling The Truth Lied

Book:Needful Things

Source: Needful Things

“Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.”

Way Feelings Seems Concepts Luxury Idle Bourgeois Overrated

Author:Nick Cave

“The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.”

Has Beens Different America Used Names Concepts England Outcomes Agendas Bully Gang Twisted Psychopath Homophobes

Author:Nick Cave

“My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.”

Real Self Play Life Is Roles Adventure Thousand Concepts Essence Series Patterns Mood Interpretation Sensations Real Self

Author:Anais Nin

“Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.”

World Time Bits Existence Information Concepts Ideals Tasks Connections Accounts Obstacles Physics Resistance Explaining Continuum Discrete

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings”

Happiness Goal Concepts Rational

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.”

Life Should Years Humans Matter Next Knowledge Position Concepts Decades Human Life New Knowledge

Author:David Lilienthal

“The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.”

Should Earth Nature Animal Responsibility Known Special Creation Creatures Elements Concepts Aspect Tradition Destruction Significance Capricious Jewish Tradition Creatures Of The Earth

Author:David Geffen

“When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?”

“The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.”

Humanity Peace Generations Building Concepts Labor Pursuit Architect Execution Cathedrals

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.”

People Thinking Way Doe Helping Happens Religion Forget Concepts Agree Better Life Forget It Better Ways God Help

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.”

Soul Body Seems Religion Atheism Concepts Empty Atheist Impression Combination Reproduction Sensory Atheistic Spiritualism Dualism

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.”

“The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.”

Littles Has Beens Religion Atheism Evolution Battle Concepts Foundation Structure Medicine Details Biology Journal Quarrels Paradigm Validity

Book:Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

Source: Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

“I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.”

Science Theory Concepts Tests Series Experiments Observation Schemes Venture Interconnected Scientific Theory Fruitfulness

Author:James Bryant Conant

“How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.”