Midst Quotes - Page 17

• Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.

  Shawn Achor

  Meaningful, Creating, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.

  David Lynch

  Light, Differences, Diversity

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wise, Blood, Silence

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• There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Christmas, Grief, Hands

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.219

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• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Differences, Government

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Riches, Miserable

  John Tillotson (1699). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions : Together with the Rule of Faith : Being All that Were Published by His Grace Himself and Now Collected Into One Volume : to which is Added, an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters”, p.338

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• When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Happiness, Spring, Anxiety

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• Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Hope, World, Tempest

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• Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Women, Fancy, Ruins

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• Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay,
  And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear.
  [It., Bello in si bella vista anco e l'orrore,
  E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.]

  Torquato Tasso

  Fear, Spring, Gay

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• Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

  Rosanne Cash

  Strange, Pursuit, Autobiography

  Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.8, Penguin

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• We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Events, Extinction, Firsts

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• You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Change, Spiritual, Opportunity

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sarcasm, Brave, Balls

  Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst of some kind of action. Unfortunately, they were always too quick for me. I'm still disappointed about that.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Doors, Dolls, Rooms

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• Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time.... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'

  Harold B. Lee

  May, Busy, Christ

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• When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Office, President, President Kennedy

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• Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Humanity, World, Significant

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• in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Hindsight, Certain

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.485, Random House

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• The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

  Jan Phillips

  Sweet, Real, Joy

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• Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion.

  James Hollis

  Fashion, Anger, Expression

  James Hollis (2008). “Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves”, p.48, Penguin

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• Whenever problems seem to get the best of me, whenever I feel them closing in on me, I go to a quiet place that lies somewhere in my soul. I do not reason, analyze or think. Those will come later. I simply go. From this place of silence, I garner strength and inspiration to stand firm in the face of fire, to be calm in the midst of thunder. When I emerge, the world has not changed, but I have. And in changing, a whole new world is born.

  John Harricharan

  Lying, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Arms, Mute

  "Pro Milone". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 52 BC.

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• We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Growing Up, Selfish, Ambition

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. It is there all the time. Here we are, in the midst of this perfect way, and our practice is simply to realize it and then to actualize it in our everyday life.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Time, Practice, Perfect

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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