Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shel Silverstein

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Tara Brach

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

Swami Vivekananda

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Swami Vivekananda

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

Swami Vivekananda

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

Swami Vivekananda

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Swami Vivekananda

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

Swami Vivekananda

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Swami Vivekananda

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Swami Vivekananda

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

Sophia Loren

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Tony Robbins

You are NOT what you eat, you are what you digest and assimilate.

Tony Robbins

Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.

Tony Robbins

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Tony Robbins

Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.

Tony Blair

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Robert Anthony

The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.

Tiger Woods

My main focus is on my game.

Robert Bresson

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Robert Boyle

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Toni Morrison

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison

You are your best thing

Toni Morrison

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Tom Hanks

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Tina Fey

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

Tina Fey

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

Tad Williams

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.