Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Simon Anholt

The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions.

Thomas Merton

If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

Thomas Merton

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Thomas Merton

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

Tony Campolo

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

Rumi

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Rumi

Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

Rumi

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Ellen DeGeneres

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

Maria Edgeworth

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

Paulo Coelho

A miracle happened: another day of life.

Paulo Coelho

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

Philip Yancey

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

Philip Yancey

If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.

Pope Benedict XVI

Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

Taylor Swift

Appreciate what you have while you have it.

Rick Riordan

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

Steven Tyler

I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.

Michael Kors

Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality

Pablo Schreiber

I really appreciate what the writers are doing and respect everything that they do. So, I was satisfied, for sure.

Laini Taylor

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Michael Klim

A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.

Bill Swain

Seth wants this to be an interactive experience. He wants fans to see the intricacies of snowboard-cross because the more you understand the sport, the more you appreciate its appeal.

Neal McCoy

So many artists do so much throughout the year to help others and none of us do it for the recognition. But, it is nice to get a pat on the back and I really appreciate it." ()