Quotes for All
When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled … Read more
The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure. Eugen Herrigel
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it – so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching … Read more
If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary in order to demonstrate strictly the parasitic nature of a disease: 1) The organism must be shown to be constantly present in characteristic form and arrangement in the diseased tissue. 2) … Read more
[Women’s] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue. Frances Power Cobbe
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America. Don DeLillo
We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success. Deepak Chopra
There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin … Read more
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the next generation or two. But religious people have been singularly uncooperative, and new strategies have developed for controlling this blight on human progress. If religion won’t wither away as philosopher Richard … Read more
Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. Dalai Lama