Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Scott Card

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Orson Scott Card

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

Ram Dass

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

Ram Dass

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Ram Dass

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

Ram Dass

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

Ram Dass

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

Ram Dass

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

Ram Dass

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Ram Dass

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

Ram Dass

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

Ram Dass

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Ram Dass

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Gertrude Stein

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

Kurt Vonnegut

Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

Kurt Vonnegut

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Kurt Vonnegut

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Vandana Shiva

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

William Shakespeare

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Arthur Golden

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Katherine Anne Porter

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.