Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Amy Adams

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

Thomas Carlyle

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Steve Camp

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

Stephen Hawking

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

Steve Jobs

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Stephen Potter

Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.

Sri Chinmoy

Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

Benjamin Disraeli

Meditation is culture.

Ariana Grande

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Deepak Chopra

Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.

Deepak Chopra

Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.

Dan Harris

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

Dan Harris

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

Dalai Lama

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Dalai Lama

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

Deepak Chopra

The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Ali Smith

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Alexander Pope

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.