QUOTES of Note

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, a home that must be defended like a holy relic.

COSMONAUT ALEXEI LEONOV

Oh, it seems to me more and more, people are the root of everything.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

If one believes, as I do, that the present Earth is the only heaven, they will strive all the more to preserve heaven in it. 

SIR ARTHUR KEITH

Todays problem is not atomic energy but man's heart. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

PLATO

Is the machine going to crush humanity, or serve it?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

GOETHE

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

JOHN MUIR

A human being is part of the whole, called by us, Universe, a part limited in time and space. 

We experience ourselves, our thoughts, and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few people nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of Nature in its beauty.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

Everything is flux.

HERACLITUS

Man's task in life is to give birth to himself.

ERIC FROMM

To become oneself is man's true vocation.

KIERKEGAARD

This above all else -- to thine own self be true.

HAMLET

As is the atom, so is the Universe.

THE UPANISHADS

Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace.

HH THE DALAI LAMA

A woman is exactly that part of you that you don't know.

FREDERICO FELLINI

We carry the unexpressed sides of one another, and then get to beat each other up.

ERICA JONG

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a rising star.

FREDERIC NEITZCHE

Out beyond any ideas of wrong doing, and right doing, there is a field, I'll meet you there.

RUMI

If you are going through hell, keep going!

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist.

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH

Accepting oneself as accepted, though unacceptable.

PAUL TILLICH

If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within  you, what is within you, will kill you.

ATTRIBUTED TO JESUS, FROM THE GNOSTIC GOSPEL OF ST THOMAS

Men argue, nature acts.

VOLTAIRE

Sometimes I think we are alone in the Universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.

ARTHUR C CLARKE

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

WITTGENSTEIN

If you can put the question "am I, or am I not responsible for my acts", then  you are responsible. 

DOSTOESKY