Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Robbins

The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.

Tony Robbins

I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else.

Tony Robbins

Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person

Tony Blair

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

Sinead O'Connor

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Simone Weil

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Simone Weil

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Conrad Aiken

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

George Harrison

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

Jim Butcher

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

Ice T

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

Isaiah Berlin

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

Ian Mcewan

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

Derrick Williams

If I didn't play, I wouldn't play. I would not be mad at all.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

May Sarton

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Maria Montessori

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Philip James Bailey

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

Philip James Bailey

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Peter B. Lewis

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

Penn Jillette

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

Paulo Coelho

Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.

Paulo Coelho

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.