Creatures Quotes - Page 37

• When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.

  Pat McBride

  Worry, Storm, Trying

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• The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.

  Helen Weston

  Taken, Animal, Sound

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• We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Love, God, Wisdom

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• Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

  Wayne Teasdale

  God, Wisdom, Caring

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.3, New World Library

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• The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Yoga, Men, Essence

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press

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• To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Spring, Humility, Air

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• Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

  Muhammad

  Islamic

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• The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

  Guru Nanak

  Brother, Compassion, Hood

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• How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Blood, Order

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• O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Wisdom, Islamic, Fall

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• Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Mother, Nature, Garden

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• We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a specific nature, regardless of what we believe or say about it. We are more likely to be satisfied with the outcome, if we work with our biology rather than against it. We will be happier if we face reality on its own terms.

  Jennifer Morse

  Love, Believe, Reality

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• Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.

  Peter Leithart

  Men, Vanity, Evil

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• If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Love, Distance, Imagination

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• Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone – create a friend, a bystander, a genie, for God’s sake, any sentient creature with whom your main character can converse, perhaps argue or, better yet, engage in some action. If a person is out and doing, it’s more likely that something interesting might happen to her or him. Shut up in a room with only his thoughts for company well, that way lies fictional disaster.

  Les Standiford

  Lying, Writing, Character

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• The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

  Claudia Rankine

  Offering, Firsts, Facts

  Claudia Rankine (2004). “Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric”, Graywolf Press

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• There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

  Howard Moskowitz

  Struggle, Luxury, Issues

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• Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Change, Sex, Hate

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• That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

  Freda Adler

  Change, Heart, Men

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Marriage, Together, Wedding Ceremony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Peace, Moving, Meditation

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• A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood

  Amy Levy

  Husband, Alaska, Blood

  Amy Levy (1889). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”

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• Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Years

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1701, Open Road Media

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• I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hurt, Animal

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, University of Virginia Press

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• We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Pain, Passion, Animal

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