Home / Topics / Source Quotes

Source Quotes

Browse 4128 quotes about Source.

Source Quotes

“When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.”

Humans Light House Lost Causes Human Beings Vision Sun Inspire Source Window Shining Brilliant Eastern Curtains Brightness Sun Shines Lost Cause

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.”

World Humans Long Action Earth Nature Natural Human Beings Responsibility Share Land Building Source Resources Harmony Productive Conservation Natural Resources Nature Conservation

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water, and soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple. Quite simply, they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, and the only source of materials and tools.”

“But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.”

People Believe Humans Reason Happens Spirit Human Beings Creativity Divine Source Ancient Rome Greece Ancient Rome Ancient Greece

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.”

“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.”

Thinking World Humans Differences Human Beings Perfect Streets Example Source Newspapers Journalism Thoughtful Thinker Artificial Typical Superficial Main Street

Author:Gertrude Stein

“That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.”

World Humans Courses Evil Names Human Beings Levels Source Despair Happenings Definitions Disappointment Corruption Heavy Newspapers Irony

Author:Ridley Scott

“Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.”

Needs Humans Heart Suffering Term Human Beings Source Goodness Foundation Decent Innate Source Of Strength Reliable Sources

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Humans Mean Facts Human Beings Source Depends Treated

Author:Ryan Coogler

“If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.”

Ifs Humans Prayer Human Beings Known Source Stranger

Book:Billy Sunday speaks

Source: Billy Sunday speaks

“As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.”

Way Humans Problem Pain Enjoy Human Beings Pleasure Source Capacity Enjoyment Confused Attachment Limitless Dissatisfaction Grasping Source Of Happiness

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.”

Source: The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism

“Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.”

Humans Important Real Christian Human Beings Creativity Source Important Things Jew Believer Buddhist Human Happiness Good Human Being

Author:Dalai Lama

“Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.”

Source: The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)

“The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.”

Humans Mean Ideas Age Guy Social Process Human Beings Movement Source Productions Mortals Destination Social Movements Open Source

Author:Bruce Sterling

“If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus on euphoros, the Greek word for "the bearer of goodness," you will be inhabited by the divine source of life.”

Ifs Humans Happens Human Beings Focus Divine Source Goodness Strive Greek Elusive Source Of Life

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.”

Humans Energy Human Beings Creativity Meditation Fields Source Blessing Eternal Ancient Technique Transcendental Transcendental Meditation Happiness Love

Author:David Lynch

“I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.”

Humans Said Human Beings Economic Source Assuming Currents Making Money Framework

Author:Muhammad Yunus