Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Thomas Merton

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

Sri Aurobindo

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

Sam Ewing

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.

Sam Ewing

Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.

Sam Ewing

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Stephen Breyer

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

Stephen Colbert

If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dorothy Hamill

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

Dutch Ruppersberger

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Dalai Lama

The world will be changed by western women.

Dalai Lama

We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.

Dalai Lama

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Dalai Lama

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.