May Quotes - Page 28

• We may restrict the expression of worship for a season, just as we may briefly hold our breath, but there is an inward craving for worship that cannot be permanently stilled

  Judson Cornwall

  Expression, Inward, Worship

  Judson Cornwall (1985). “Elements of Worship”, Bridge-Logos

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• Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Mistake

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• Wisdom plays such a part in life that whatever may happen outside, whatever may be the trend, whatever may be the fashion, whatever may be the people are all changing into, you do not change. You change within.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Fashion

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• In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Believe

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• If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it" , then in time this humility may be rewarded and one may achieve one's ascent. If this happens, the persons attention comes into the center, neither on the left, nor on the right. That is, neither dominated by his conditionings from the past nor the orientations of his ambitious ego. Such a balanced person is very well suited for Self Realization, by which he will know the truth in its absolute form.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• So as you are, in whatever conditions you are, in whatever situations you are, whatever may be the surroundings, like a dirty mire full of creatures and filth, you can become like lotuses. When you become like lotuses, all that is filth, all that is horrible can become fragrant. And this is what we have to achieve.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Dirty

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• A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So all may enjoy the beautiful sight.

  Albert Richards

  Beautiful, Sight, Wings

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• Tears may come and go,
  But there's one thing I know.
  All my life you're a friend of mine.
  You can depend on me.
  I'll be fine...
  'Cause you're a friend of mine.

  Clarence Clemons

  Tears, Causes, Fine

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• The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Science, Toxic Waste

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.591, University of Arkansas Press

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• More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Learning, Self

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• In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Art, Book

  William Graham Sumner, (2013). “Folkways - A Study Of The Sociological Importance Of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores And Morals”, p.251, Read Books Ltd

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• Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thank You, Education, Teacher

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

  James Whistler

  Art, Intelligence, Safe

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Attitude, Independent, Atheism

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Teaching, Math

  George Pólya, Leon Bowden (1977). “Mathematical Methods in Science”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, World, Renounce

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Get Better, Enlightenment

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.15, H J Kramer

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• When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

  Epictetus

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Thinking

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• We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

  Alain de Botton

  God, Soul, Trying

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• There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

  Emily Bronte

  Easter, Art, Atoms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.212, The Floating Press

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• You may do as you wish without fear of retribution. It may serve you, however, to be aware of consequences. Consequences are results. Natural outcomes. These are not at all the same as retributions, or punishments. Outcomes are simply that. They are what results from the natural application of natural laws. They are that which occurs, quite predictably, as a consequence of what has occurred.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Law, Punishment, Wish

  "Conversations With God: Book One". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, January 22, 2009.

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• Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

  William Hazlitt

  Acceptance, Men, Satisfaction

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

  Pindar

  Acceptance, Strive, Let Me

  "The odes of Pindar".

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