Quotes for All
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one’s relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one’s doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one’s individual life from its … Read more
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments. Elizabeth Kostova
No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up. Elizabeth Gilbert
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear – … Read more
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings – this and nothing else is the task… for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning – if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one’s individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment. Freeman Patterson
The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don’t rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations. Frederick Lenz
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don’t have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life! Fred Van Lente
Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming. Frank Pierson
The Pleiadians see a huge upswing in the drama on the planet and in individual lives. The drama is not a bad thing. It’s just simply getting our attention to that which we need to take care of and notice all that we’re still holding onto within ourselves. It’s just to act as a mirror. … Read more