“There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.” WorldPersonsLongSeemsPurposeOrderExistenceStepsExpressionErrorsNotionBoundsDisappointmentInsightGreat ThingsContradictionPersistMaintainingElderlyEvery StepCountenanceWorld And Life Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."” MindFirstsPersonsSpiritTurnsVoiceAnswersStepsHumilityExpressionKeysHonorForgivingGentleRelaxBitternessFirst StepsFacialFacial Expression Author:Gary Smalley
“A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.” OrderStepsProgressExpressionTheorySimplicityHypotheticalFraming Book:Miscellaneous Scientific Papers Source: Miscellaneous Scientific Papers
“When a path opens up before us that leads we know not where, don't be afraid to follow it. Our lives are meant to be mysterious journeys, unfolding one step at a time. Often we follow a path worn smooth by the many and in doing so we lose our authenticity, our individuality, our own unique expression. Do not be afraid to lose your way. Out of chaos, clarity will eventually rise. Out of not knowing, something new and unknown will ultimately come. Do not order things too swiftly. Wait and the miracle will appear.” KnowsWayOrderWaitingLosesStepsKnowingPathOur LivesJourneyExpressionUniqueMiracleChaosIndividualityAuthenticityClarityMysteriousSomething NewMeant To BeNot KnowingWornSmoothUnfoldingOne Step At A TimeKnowing Something Author:Ann Mortifee
“Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.” ForceEffortStepsMysteryFashionStyleExpressionPleaseSightStudiosChipsLaddersToiletsStatuesCompletionSculptorsSwept Away Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.” ArtSelfSeemsEyeFormArtistStepsTeachGraceColorPaintingExpressionMastersGeniusHigherDancingDanceForgottenPossessionEducatedPencilsLimbsBoundlessSplendorOpulence Book:The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.” SelfStepsPathTakenSawsExpressionFindingsUltimateFollowingIndividuationExponents Author:Carl Jung
“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.” ShouldMindFirstsSelfSoundCompassionSituationAcceptingStepsHonestHonestyAcceptanceHumilityExpressionFineBalanceDisciplinePureDignityPerfectionFaultsOneselfMissionsGuidesGenuineRealizationSelf AcceptanceFirst StepsDeficiencyAcknowledgmentIrrevocable Author:Midori Goto
“The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.” MadeFormSilenceStepsExampleColorExpressionConceptsLettersAccomplished Author:William S. Burroughs
“Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one Life. Anyone who has not fulfilled that life must step down the Truth, and when he does that, he is unconsciously betraying the Truth.” DoeDifferentStepsExpressionBetrayFulfilledSavages Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.” UsedRaceStepsCarExpressionElementsRemoveMachinerySkiingRace Car Author:Robert Redford