Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

Chogyam Trungpa

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Chogyam Trungpa

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

David Brin

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Eckhart Tolle

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

Ann Druyan

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Drew Barrymore

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

C. S. Lewis

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Cecelia Ahern

I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

Carrie Brownstein

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

Carrie Fisher

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be a victim.

Carrie Fisher

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

Bill Bryson

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

Tom Davis

We were having trouble getting out on the shooters. They just drilled us.

William Shakespeare

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Dan Kelso

I thought it was important that passed. Without that, we would have been in trouble as a town.

Olin Browne

I thought it was for 58, ... I've always had trouble with math.

Dave Johnson

I was in a lot of trouble as a kid.

Charlaine Harris

Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Chad Everett

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.