Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neale Donald Walsch

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.

Milan Kundera

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

Mila Kunis

Knowing who you are is confidence.

Marcel Proust

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!

Marcel Proust

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Jose Saramago

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jorge Luis Borges

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Jordan Knight

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.

Joni Mitchell

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

Kevin Brockmeier

Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

Kelley Armstrong

I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!

Joe Trippi

Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.

John C. Maxwell

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Bonnie Fuller

The kind of picture that has a big value are of celebrities getting married. We don't knowingly purchase any photographs taken while endangering the safety of any individual.

James Taylor

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

James Thurber

Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

James Macdonald

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

Novalis

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Norton Juster

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

Emilie Autumn

I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

Emile M. Cioran

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Epicurus

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Emily Giffin

there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.

Emily Dickinson

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

Edward Thorndike

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

Edward Teller

Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.

Henry Van Dyke

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henri Nouwen

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.