Able Quotes - Page 43

The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

As we raise ourselves in the spiritual consciousness, we are better able to solve the problems of life. We are happy. We are at home in every environment.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.

I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.

While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.

I want to be able to like just chill and make whatever I want to make.

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.