Enlightening Quotes - Page 5

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces me to connect with the world. When you make four-hour exposures in the middle of the night, you inevitably slow down and begin to observe and appreciate more what's going on around you. In our fast-paced, modern world, it's a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Stars, Moving

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• Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.

  Matthew Kelly

  Life, Hurt, Love Yourself

  Matthew Kelly (2005). “The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Brain, Conflict

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3685, Manonmani Publishers

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• Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Being Happy, Gratitude, Attitude

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.90, Parallax Press

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• Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reading, Night, Thinking

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• By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Men, Expression

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• I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Uplifting, Believe

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• For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you or a theory enlightens you, you and its creator are connecting in a realm beyond sight or speech.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Song, Moving, Sight

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.72, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

  Robert Holden

  Giving Up, Past, Order

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• A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

  David Mamet

  Theatre, May, Dramatic

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Art, Independent, Opportunity

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• One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order....Most likely, now - as in the past - many analysts have become carried away by the results of their models, which purport to look into a far distant future, and have convinced themselves that they must embark on a crusade to enlighten others.

  Colin Robinson

  Past, Order, Climate

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• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Awakening

  "The Way of Life, According to Laotzu" by Witter Bynner, 1944.

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• The more you know, the less you need.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Positivity, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin

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• Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

  Marcia Whicker

  Leadership, Dark, Light

  Marcia Lynn Whicker (1996). “Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad”, Praeger Publishers

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• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Positivity, Intelligent

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company

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• I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Spring, Flower

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• Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

  Garry Kasparov

  Struggle, Battle, Chess

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• Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Motivation, Results

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.69, Penguin

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• St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Care, May

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio”

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• Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

  Starhawk

  Mind, Body, Paganism

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like ‘That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.’

  Khalil

  Stars, Dwelling, Space

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• I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

  Confucius

  Squares, Giving, Three

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• I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

  Isaac Asimov

  Honest, Buyers, Thesis

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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