Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease. The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone. It is wrong to think that bodily health is compatible with spiritual confusion or cultural disorder, or with polluted air and water or impoverished soil.

Wendell Berry

No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

Wendell Berry

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

Wendell Berry

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

Wendell Berry

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

W. Somerset Maugham

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

Will Smith

Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face.

Will Smith

I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.

Vladimir Lenin

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Wayne Dyer

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Wayne Dyer

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Wayne Dyer

As You Think, So Shall You Be.

Wayne Dyer

Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats its heart, digests its food and grows its fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health.

Wayne Dyer

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Wayne Dyer

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

Wayne Dyer

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

Wayne Dyer

Learn to be comfortable with the concept of infinity, and see yourself as an infinite being.

Wayne Dyer

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

Wayne Dyer

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

Wayne Dyer

As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.

Wayne Dyer

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.

Wayne Dyer

But when you get to a higher level of consciousness, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else.

Wayne Dyer

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Wayne Dyer

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

Wayne Dyer

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Wayne Dyer

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Wayne Dyer

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

Wayne Dyer

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

Wayne Dyer

For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.

Wayne Dyer

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Wayne Dyer

Feeling unworthy is like putting a huge obstacle into the God force, into the life force which is everywhere.

Wayne Dyer

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

Wayne Dyer

Everything I need now is here