Function Quotes - Page 40

• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spirit, Prime, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.7, New World Library

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Real, Breathing, Community

  "What Oprah Knows For Sure About Finding Your Calling" By Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Pet, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.44, New World Library

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.

  Charles Colson

  Hurt, Community, Church

  7 Copy quote

• Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

  Alan Cohen

  World, Spirit, Offspring

  5 Copy quote

• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

  10 Copy quote

• Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Civilization, People

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving, Depth, Way

  "Myths to Live By".

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.

  Julian Burnside

  Communication, Vocabulary, Media

  13 Copy quote

• Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

  David Byrne

  Cheer, Real, Sadness

  4 Copy quote

• Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

  Hermann Weyl

  Couple, Book, Math

  8 Copy quote

• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Originality

  "Prejudices: Third Series (Le Contrat Social)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.9, New World Library

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Kindness, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.190, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-obje ct look.

  W. H. Auden

  Beautiful, Eye, Expression

  4 Copy quote

• The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Two, Mind, Able

  31 Copy quote

• It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Two, Goal

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, Fall, People

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

  Sigmund Freud

  Intellectual, Unity, Perception

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (2001). “Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics”, p.111, Psychology Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.

  John Yau

  Way, Sentimental, Emotion

  4 Copy quote

• Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

  Michael Novak

  Christian, Ideas, Individual

  7 Copy quote

• The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Technology

  4 Copy quote

• The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Technology

  5 Copy quote

• It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Attention

  4 Copy quote