Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 73
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney J. Harris
The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
Paula Scher
The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea.
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
Hortense Odlum
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.
Pope Pius XII
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
Peter McWilliams
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.
Dan Pallotta
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
Laurie Anderson
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
Irene Rosenfeld
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
John Archibald Wheeler
