hana77 favourite quotes (page 11) | Quotes of famous people

“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Source: My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.”

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869) French literary critic

Le désespoir lui-même, pour peu qu'il se prolonge, devient une sorte d'asile dans lequel on peut s'asseoir et reposer.

"Vie de Joseph Delorme" (1829), cited from Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve (Paris: Charpentier, 1840) p. 16; Mardy Grothe Oxymoronica (London: HarperCollins, 2004) p. 201.

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

Gordon W. Allport (1897–1967) American psychologist

Source: předmluva ke knize Man's Search for Meaning (A přesto říci životu ano) od Viktora Frankla

“Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

Source: In the Sanctuary of the Soul: A Guide to Effective Prayer

“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”

Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader

“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea, How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.”

Helena Bonham Carter (1966) British actress

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“The more you love, the more you suffer”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“It takes courage… to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my Beloved.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

As quoted in Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master (2000) by Timothy Freke
Variant: The fault is in the blamer — Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater used to say, 'Everything you know is wrong.' But that is a very liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Spacetime Tsunami http://www.deoxy.org/t_sunami.htm, Interview with Carla Sinclair, bOING bOING #10.
Context: I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater used to say, 'Everything you know is wrong.' But that is a very liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently. And there's a way to take the world apart and put it back unrecognizably. We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep levels. With some of the tryptamine hallucinogens, you see into possibilities where questions like, 'are you alive?' 'are you dead?' 'are you you?' seem to have been transcended. I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there.

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“There is a crack, a crack, in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: Píseň Anthem

“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”

Hafez (1326–1389) Persian poet