Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

Alanis Morissette

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

Alan Watts

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Alan Watts

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Alan Ball

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

Al Smith

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Charles Dickens

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Charles Stanley

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

Charles Spurgeon

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Charles Spurgeon

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

Charles Spurgeon

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

Alan Watts

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

Benjamin Haydon

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Baltasar Gracian

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Brian Tracy

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

Berthold Auerbach

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Alfred Korzybski

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

Bruce Lee

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Dale Carnegie

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Anne Robinson

I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

Debbi Fields

Being good enough never is.