Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Franzen

He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

Joyce Carol Oates

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

Joyce Carol Oates

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

Paul Lynde

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

Mary Catherine Bateson

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.

Piper Laurie

Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

Pink

True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.

Pope Francis

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

Pete Wentz

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

Paulo Coelho

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

Paulo Coelho

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

Paulo Coelho

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Peter Singer

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Peter Singer

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

Rachel Carson

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

R. A. Salvatore

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

Plotinus

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Philip Yancey

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

Pope Benedict XVI

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

Mother Teresa

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.

Jim Palmer

There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

George MacDonald

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

Eknath Easwaran

Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.

Joel Osteen

If you know you have to wait anyway, why not make a decision to enjoy your life while you’re waiting? Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there’s nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring his plan to pass.

Joel Osteen

Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.

Joel Osteen

God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life.

Jimmy Iovine

The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you.

Jimmy Page

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

Jim Tressel

Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group.