“The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe 's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly!” MenHumansRealHandsLastsJoyUnderstandingAttitudeYouthHe ManLimitsScientistRaisedFinishedGentlemanCriedImpressedLast WordsLecturesApplauseAcademyBiologist Author:Konrad Lorenz
“To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.” HumansJoyHeavenFireLove YouLimitsStealingAdmireIdolsAdmire You Author:Delphine de Girardin
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.” MenWorldHappinessJoyLiteratureLimitsAncientIllImpulseEaseHappy Man Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.” GivingHeartLittlesHandsJoyPeaceLosesBirthLimitsImmortalUtteranceIneffable Book:Poems Source: Poems
“It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.” MomentsFeelingsDreamTruthPastJoyChanceConsciousnessLimitsAchievementHighestWideAwakeMortalityTowersPeersCastlesMistRight DirectionRobustMastsWide AwakeTerrace Book:Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
“What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.” MenInspirationalHeartLongSoulMatterLastsJoySpiritEnergyWealthImpossibleBrotherWallHolyPureLimitsForgottenFleshDistinctionEcstasyAtomsBrothers And SistersClayUnconditionalCommonplace Author:George Leonard
“We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.” ThinkingKnowsWayNeedsJoyAsksLimitsNeed God Author:John Piper
“There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.” MadeJoyPleasureAwarenessSourceLimitsAlternativesFuelTunesElectricityFossilsSurroundingsFossil Fuel Author:John Lindsay
“Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.” MindStatesMomentsJoySpiritDemandLimitsAbsolutesMirrorsFactorsContentmentThat MomentState Of MindRoutesLiberatedCoordination Author:Wolfgang Gullich
“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.” IfsKnowsHumansMayChildrenEnoughUseBodyFormJoyOrderRealizingHuman BeingsAbilityEffortKnow HowAchieveMovementExpressionLimitsHighestReactionsControlledSheerEntitledExpressiveSheer Joy Author:Margaret H'Doubler
“Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.” KnowsGivingFeelsDoeRunningAbleJoyTurnsImpossibleFailingAchieveStrangeLimitsHighestFlowAll ThingsAccountsRegardBoundsVery GoodBurdenGreat ThingsLeapToilGiverLove Strength Author:Thomas a Kempis
“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.” LoveJoyLove IsConditionsSorrowLimitsSpringGardenGreenFruitTrue LoveAutumnYieldInspirational LoveMuslimLoving SomeoneFreshnessWhen You Love SomeoneMeaning Of LoveSufi Love Book:Love is a Stranger Source: Love is a Stranger
“Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.” KnowsHeartChildrenBodyEarthJoyMotherNightAsksHeavenBornSpaceSeaPoetSweetFlowerArmsBirthLimitsKissingEternalStriveHungerRhythmDustAsk MeMy ChildrenFulfilledStrifeSageTime And SpaceDay And NightBirth And DeathEvermoreTiptoes Author:Rabindranath Tagore
“Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)” Life IsJoyLimitsFullness Author:Ernest Holmes
“The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.” JoyBloodLimitsSeekingUnbound Author:Upton Sinclair
“The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.” HappensAbleMovingJoyActorsCausesActingSweetLimitsApproachDirectAccessBreathingCosmicDreadGreat Actors Book:The Presence of the Actor Source: The Presence of the Actor
“Keep ramping up your level of joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the joy, the faster the change. Your emanation of joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of joy!” FeelingsHappinessLawJoyLevelsHigherLimitsDegreesAttractionLaw Of AttractionFasterWithin YouSpectacular Author:Rhonda Byrne