Best 77 quotes in «enlightening quotes» category

Live Life, Laugh Lots, and Love Big!

In total seclusion, enlightening, I found the origin of my being.

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

...people who struggle against tyranny are more psychologically healthy than those who are docile and simply conform to current ways of thinking...there is much evidence that some of the most creative people in history were driven individuals who were terribly unhappy and out of sync with their social context. Creativity itself is a form of deviant behavior that requires individuals to break from usual assumptions and understandings in developing entirely new perspectives and approaches.

Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

There is a need, in every world, to believe in things that cannot be seen.

Real success isn't just a matter of chance or choice. What really matters, before you make a choice, is that you clarify and choose what really matters.

Stars do not shine on their friends alone.

Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which all human beings are heir. In the course of analytic time, it became apparent that -- with or without the burden of social justice -- the effort required to attain any semblance of inner freedom was extraordinary. Great literature, I then realized, is a record not of the achievement, but of the effort.

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.

There’s greatness in smallness. Just look into the eyes of a child.

They that cannot govern themselves cannot govern others (Pg. 238).

The world will burn for a hundred years. Fire will consume the things we made from wood and plastic and rubber and cloth, then water and wind and time will chew the stone and steel into dust. How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they needed was Mother Nature and time.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.

Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'

And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

Every Chess master was once a beginner

For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.

For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

I've found that falling doesn't always leave you fallen for.

Love holds no grievances.

Nature is not human hearted.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

Pinterest is like window shopping 3.0.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.