“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist
Person to person: The problem of being human: A new trend in psychology (1967)
Source: page 187.
Martin Svoboda
Verified author @quick, member from April 4, 2011
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Source: Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Variant: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”
Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth
Source: The General in His Labyrinth
“No matter what happens, always be yourself.”
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur, earliest source found is work of George Santayana who doesn't attribute it to anyone. Plato and his dialogues by Bernard SUZANNE, "Frequently Asked Questions about Plato : Did Plato write "Only the dead have seen the end of war"?" http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm
Source: Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922), "Tipperary"
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American theoretical physicist and professor of physics
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. <br class="br">Interview about the Trinity explosion, first broadcast as part of the television documentary The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965), produced by Fred Freed, NBC White Paper; the translation is his own. online video at atomicarchive.com http://www.atomicarchive.com/Movies/Movie8.shtml <br class="br">It is possible that Oppenheimer is referring to Bhagavad-Gita xi:32: श्रीभगवानुवाच | कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृत्त: (śrī-bhagavān uvāca kālo 'smi loka-kṣaya-kṛt pravṛddho lokān samāhartum iha pravṛttaḥ) ("The blessed one [Krishna] said: I am the full-grown [or mighty] world-destroying Time [or Death], now engaged in destroying the worlds").
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
“The world is whatever you say it is if you know how to say it right.”
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Source: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Context: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.